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
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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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What about for books and movies, though, where there's no clear deliniation between the "score" and the "performance"? The equivalent situation is the norm there too.
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