I recall reading somewhere that less than 5 years is the average time it takes for most individual works to earn the majority of its value, tapering off from there
So I’d probably do a 2-tier system:
Tier 1: independent civilians. After 5 years any normal civvie can take your work and use it without your permission to do whatever they want with it
Tier 2: Companies. Life of the author. For as long as the original creator is alive no company can ever use their work without permission
I recommend cruising your local thrift stores until you find a dark brown brother laser printer for about $6.99.
The market is replete with second hand toner and fusers and repair parts and it will just print what you need it to print.
Many of them should have Network compatibility with an ethernet cable, but if not you can purchase a very cheap older raspberry pi and run CUPS on it and network it that way.
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