Copyright laws are designed to allow the Creator to financially benefit from their work. I'm not sure how you can ethically separate a songwriter from his royalties for any length of time. Its like finding a gold mine and only benefitting for 7 years; after which you turn it over for "public use". You found the gold. You keep it. Period. Royalty fees are trivial. Like 10 cents per sale on a song. http://moneywisdom-gold.blogspot.com