Copyright and the Superman

So there was a pretty big ruling concern the ownership of Superman (i.e. the copyright to the character). A Court of Law has reverted half of the copyright to Action Comics #1 and the character of Superman as defined therein. This to the heirs of Jerry Siegel according to a piece of copyright reform. Artist and co-creator Joe Shuster's estate (Shuster having no heirs) will have its chance at its half of the copyright according to a separate piece of copyright reform come 2013. This applies only to the U.S. DC Comics maintains its international interests.

Some thoughts:

1) I'm going to be pissed if this adversely affects All-Star Superman (it'll likely be finished before DC Comics' appeal on the ruling is even processed).

2) Copyright reform is going in the wrong direction.

3) Superman should be in the public domain.

4) Copyright should last no longer than 25 years. Even that's being generous, I think.

The origins of copyright lie in not creating a continuous cashcow for your life, and the lives of your children and their children, but to let you profit for an extended period from successful work as way of inspiring creativity and continuation thereof. Copyright has lost its way. It'd be best to scrap the whole system and start anew, except for the massive Media Conglomerate Lobbies that have already ruined copyright would still be at the forefront. As can be seen in the case of the Music Industry v. the Internet and the Advancement of Technology, copyright should be the benefit of Artists and not Record Labels.