Subtraction by Addition

Frank builds upon/beside the thougts of Derek and Doc - Thoughts after Reading Derek and Doc:

Larry Lessig says it best - Disney has worked very hard to make sure that no one can do to Disney what Disney did to the Brothers Grimm. And stopping that process is going to depend upon being able to show that copyright as currently constructed is allowing the last person who touched the creation to claim that all the work that went before his little contribution now belongs to him. It doesn't work that way with buildings or bridges or automobiles, and it shouldn't work that way with creative works either. Just because you can't see the contributions of culture doesn't mean that they aren't there, and it certainly doesn't mean that they can be exclusively appropriated.