I tend to disagree on the basis that something new is often derived from something old, and if everything old is owned and locked up by someone then that means you can't derive anything new from anything old and thus have to come up with everything from scratch.
The Divine comedy draws heavily upon the works of the greeks and the romans, as well as contemporary for the time christian ideas, and it's widely considered one of the most greatest works of all time.
More recently, a lot of writers got their start writing fan fiction, and the massively popular 50 shades of gray started off as a twilight fan fiction (which itself draws upon lore about werewolves and vampires)
There's a line somewhere that you stop getting more works by the limited time monopoly and start inhibiting works that are stifled by those monopolies owning generations of our stories.
The Divine comedy draws heavily upon the works of the greeks and the romans, as well as contemporary for the time christian ideas, and it's widely considered one of the most greatest works of all time.
More recently, a lot of writers got their start writing fan fiction, and the massively popular 50 shades of gray started off as a twilight fan fiction (which itself draws upon lore about werewolves and vampires)
There's a line somewhere that you stop getting more works by the limited time monopoly and start inhibiting works that are stifled by those monopolies owning generations of our stories.
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