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C) no copyright after 2 years. (would this really decrease output?)

Ask yourself that if it was a project you spent multiple years working on from developing it, producing it, editing it, marketing it. Is 2 years worth of protection from other people using to your work to make money from it fair?

Would you have created a better project in less time if you had access to the wealth of work done before yours?

I don't understand the premise of the question. Are you suggesting that a project's time to completion could be shortened if you are allowed to just out right use the script of other previously produced content, or use their footage? I really hope not.

Take the True Detective series as an example. The first season is highly regarded, and took forever for it to get made. Lots of love and effort went into developing that story. Because of its success, the producer was asked to do a new "season". It was litterally pulled out of thin air with no iteratitive development time on the story, and was univerally panned and the creator admitted this. The point? Sometimes it takes time to develop a good story. Just ask JRR Martin.

Not necessarily using the full script or footage, but things like characters, settings, design elements or wholesale plots. Even if they reused a script, anyone who's worked on a play knows you can have two very different scenes that started with the same script.

I haven't seen True Detective, but maybe he could have pulled off a successful second season if he could have freely adapted someone like G.R.R. Martin's story.

Oops, stupid typos. It might be intersting to see Jeorge RR Martin's characters in a buddy cop detective series.

I figured you combined Tolkien with Martin, I bet it's a pretty common mistake.

Unfortunately any series trying that premise would need to wait like a century or pay Martin a ton of money, so you'll never know if it's interesting.

Ahhh, I see the problem. You just need to be introduced to fanfic!

Fanfic is basically ignored copyright infringement, severely limiting the potential of the medium. There are plenty of examples of reboots and adaptations making new and superior works, copyright just adds an insurmountable barrier for most works.

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