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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Replying to @CurlOfGradient
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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Replying to @davidmanheim
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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Replying to @CurlOfGradient @davidmanheim
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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Replying to @CurlOfGradient @davidmanheim
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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Replying to @CurlOfGradient
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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Replying to @davidmanheim
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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Replying to @CurlOfGradient
I'm unsure, but given what I've seen, there's no legal remedy for "plagiarizing" a plot. People can steal plot points, most of the setting, etc. As long as they change character names and write it themselves. But I'd be fine with mandatory licensing for "adaptions," like HP:MoR.
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Replying to @davidmanheim
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Replying to @CurlOfGradient @davidmanheim
Making better versions of movies yourself is prohibitively expensive, so I wish there was some mechanism in place that incentivized Hollywood etc. to only output the best possible versions of their ideas, and to not publish what they know is crap
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I also think changing all the names etc. is not enough; some things that are now cultural touchstones still deserve to be made better. I like the idea of a story that gets changed/optimized through generations. Imagine if we kept rewriting Twilight every year until it became good
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Replying to @CurlOfGradient @davidmanheim
That way there won't be such a bad SNR. Instead of saying "you should read X, it's like a good version of Twilight", we could say "you should read Twilight, it used to be bad but it's good now"
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Replying to @CurlOfGradient @davidmanheim
You do not want a court adjudicating art quality. What’s wrong with the current “like Twilight but good” status quo?
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