How would a world without copyright extremism be a better world?
Imagine that one day you get the idea to make a movie about what is in that briefcase in Pulp Fiction (the one whose glowing contents everyone looks at in awe but we never see). In fact, you and your friends decide to make a series of shorts with different ideas about what is in that briefcase, and you intercut your stories with some original Pulp Fiction footage, creating a work with parallel realities to go along with Quentin Tarantino’s original vision. You put this new work on a DVD and sell it on the Web, where other people who are obsessed with Pulp Fiction buy it and find it enormously entertaining. It provokes a trend–another group of friends makes their own version, and soon many people around the world are doing the same thing, and the movies get better and better as the different filmmakers challenge each other, like jazz musicians riffing on the same theme. Of course, such an explosion of creativity would be morally repugnant, or at least that is the way conventional wisdo
