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> 14 years is a little short, especially for books which can get adaptations that pay more than the book

If you want to make an official adapatation, hire the author. If not, it's not official. This takes care of itself for authors who cultivate their fan base.

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You could also keep trademarks. So content might not be protected, but you couldn't release remixes under trademarked names.

I think some kind of automatic royalty would be a nice middle ground.

Compulsory licensing seems to have worked OK (though maybe not great) in some areas, such as broadcast retransmission, and recordings of cover versions of songs.

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