&gt; AS LONG AS THE COPYRIGHT OWNER THINKS YOU SHOULD WAIT<p>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.<p>Given that the idea of a &quot;tragedy&quot; 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.<p>We have the idea of compulsory licensing for a bunch of different things.  Why shouldn&#x27;t movies and TV shows and such also be licensed that way?