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Sampling and the like in the music industry are covered by statutory licenses permission doesn't need to be given. I wasn't arguing that copyright as intended doesn't promote science and the useful arts, I was suggesting copyright as you want it doesn't promote science and the useful arts.
Pride and prejudice and Zombies is something new you never thought to put zombies into Victorian era society tales. You didn't think of Buffy the Vampire Slayer but Joss Wheadon read Dracula and did and didn't have to face a copyright infringement lawsuit from the Braham Stoker estate for using a vampire that can die if you cut off its head, but he brought new things to the table and mixed in other sources in his own unique way. Creation comes out of an environment. You use pride and prejudice and zombies as an example because you don't like it, your personal taste doesn't make something unworthy but you're so hung up on money money money. The value of the public domain is not being free (gratis) it's in being free (libre) everyone who's work you pay for has taken form the public domain in some way it doesn't have to be a blatant ripoff or straight retelling like Cinderella or Forbidden Planet, it doesn't have to be a remix like Star Wars (and aren't Kirosauwa's films still under copyright?) When you make any allusion to something that came before you've used the public domain even the general use characters have attributes from people who have remixed them before, prince Charming's white horse came form somewhere, for that matter riding a horse came from somewhere and the name prince charming and the idea of the heroic prince.
You keep accusing everyone else of no respect for rights and wanting something for nothing. Copyright has a cost.
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