You're not thinking about copyrights, which protect expressions, you're talking about patents, which are for ideas. And that's kind of how certain proposed solutions to patent thickets work, albeit with mandatory cross-licensing instead of replacing the patents.
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I was talking about art; i.e. if someone has a great idea for a book/movie/whatever but the result is terrible, someone should be able to rewrite it so it's good
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Cantor diagonalization, but for generating tweets that you can't reply to by quoting a previous tweet
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I'm starting to think copyrights, trademarks, and patents need a huge overhaul anyway 5-25 years profit Monopoly, mandatory renewal or it expires, and permanent only sourcing and credit.
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ha ha, that's funn-- (reads) waaaaaaait you aren't joking, here, are you.
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