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The argument goes that copyright has allowed massive corporations to buy up and exert near total control over all of our shared stories. And when you own the cultural touchstones of whole generations that gives you power that no one else can ever wield.

There is a massive amount of amazing stories based on ancient myths because it's one of the few large corpora that isn't copywritten. Once you see it in media you can't unsee it. The only space where that kind of creativity can thrive anymore is fan-fiction which lives in weird limbo where it's illegal but the copyright owners don't care. And when you want to bring any of it to the mainstream you have to hide it, all of Ali Hazelwoods books are reworked fanfics because she can't use the actual characters that inspired her -- her most famous book "The Love Hypothesis" is a Reylo fic.

Go check out https://archiveofourown.org/media and see how many works are owned by a few large corporations.