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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Cultural heritage refers to the ability to use elements of the work in creating a new work.
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It happens already. Masses of fantasy since
Lord of the Rings owes its existence to
Lord of the Rings. While,
Lord of the Rings, in its turn, took inspiration, and some (limited) elements, from Tolkien's cultural heritage. And so on, ad infinitum. How many more examples do we need?
Anyway, claiming "cultural heritage" is just spin. Fan-fiction/Derivative-fiction might, at a stretch, be considered a specialised use of cultural heritage (just this little bit of culture please), but it's rather a big swallow to claim we need short copyright for cultural heritage purposes when all we really mean is this tiny little specialist bit of cultural heritage that isn't already covered.