Problem: Someone has a great idea but executes it poorly, and no one can make a better version because it's under copyright Solution: If a court declares your version to be better than the currently copyrighted version, the copyright is transferred to you
This would incentivize people to make good versions of things to begin with, since they will lose copyright to someone else if it's easy to do better. Not that I'm serious, of course, since there's no objective way to determine quality.
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Imagine if someone composed a masterpiece, but the official audio track was recorded by a mediocre orchestra and someone was constantly coughing in the background. And you'll never hear a good version because the composer won't let anyone record it. Most works are like this.
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Fair point, but the same remedy applies; replace protection granted to musical scores (as distinct from performances) with mandatory licensing. (This is a compromise between "everything enters public domain nearly-immediately" and "no derivatives/ extensions for a century.")
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