Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.

Any civilization where the main symbol of religious veneration is a tool of execution is a bad place to have children.

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.