Transferability of Copyright

I have been perusing the Indian Copyright Office website at

http://www.copyright.gov.in

In that website copyright is talked about as some sort of author’s special rights. If that is the real purpose of the copyright act, then why does it allow the transfer of copyright from one person (or organisation) to another?

Does it make sense to ask for an amendment to make the copyright non-transferable? IANAL, hence this question. Any thoughts on this?
Some of the +ve effects of such clause would be,

• The authors would always be in control. The publishers can license the work from the authors. As far as I can see, in the current copyright system, only the publishers own most of the copyright and not the authors. This non-transferable copyright will set the copyright system in the correct course.
• If the author dies, the copyrighted work gets to public domain. Or inherited by his/her family. This will avoid copyrights for extending for a ridiculously long period of time (when it is not inherited.)
• No author can be forced or pressurized to transfer copyright. For example, if you want us to publish your paper you have to transfer the copyright to us. (http://cr.yp.to/writing/ieee.html).

All your comments are welcome. Thank you.