> AS LONG AS THE COPYRIGHT OWNER THINKS YOU SHOULD WAIT The point of copyright was to ensure that people who made creative works could get paid and earn a livi

> AS LONG AS THE COPYRIGHT OWNER THINKS YOU SHOULD WAIT The point of copyright was to ensure that people who made creative works could get paid and earn a living. Not to tie their cultural works up for the rest of their lives, everyone else be damned. Given that the idea of a "tragedy" has been around for a few thousand years now (the greeks wrote about it a long time ago) how is any creative work created completely in a vacuum? I believe that the answer is that it is not. Many stories have different details but there are probably only a few dozen archetypical stories. We have the idea of compulsory licensing for a bunch of different things. Why shouldn't movies and TV shows and such also be licensed that way?