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but can also be impossible if the author doesn't approve the derived work

But the right to refuse derived work is just as essential to justice as the right to royalties on creative work. For example, Kurt Vonnegut had (and his estate has) the moral right to say "no!" to a neo-Nazi that wants to "remix" Harrison Bergeron into a new story promoting racism.

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Which is why the author is granted a period of time in which they are the ones controlling/exploiting/restricting/etc their work. What I argue for is that this should not be forever. In fact, I would argue that the current generation should be free to derive work from works of their generation too, and not be restricted to "things from the past".

Whether the derived work is bad or good is beyond this conversation as one could argue is original work is not good/bad enough.

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