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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
What you don't seem to get is that incorporating the work of others can enhance a work by giving it an extra dimension, one that I, as a reader, cherish. So you want to deprive me of something that means a lot to me. Am I glad that you are not in a position to do that!
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I get that previous works can enhance new ones. What I'm saying is that this type of enhancement is not required for society to progress and if it's desired to progress in this way, then pay the copyright holders for using their works. It's not unreasonable to do so.
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You also unwittingly support a point I made in the post you found so ridiculous: The eternal copyright you want would kill literature as a form of communication, and thus, in a way, literature itself.
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No it won't. Literature will go on and new books will be written.