Which is why the author is granted a period of time in which they are the ones controlling&#x2F;exploiting&#x2F;restricting&#x2F;etc their work. What I argue for is that this should not be forever. In fact, I would argue that the current generation should be free to derive work from works of their generation too, and not be restricted to &quot;things from the past&quot;.<p>Whether the derived work is bad or good is beyond this conversation as one could argue is original work is not good&#x2F;bad enough.