I disagree. Reusing, reimagining, and retelling are fundamental concepts and key to human development. Copyright is almost unjustifiable as a concept in from that perspective.

Copyright sets an arbitrary limit on what is considered "original". The vagueness of that limit is then used to crush and suppress related ideas, with no care as to whether they were discovered entirely independently.

The goal of ensuring that people are recognised and rewarded for their work is noble. Copyright is just an awful way of doing so. It runs contrary to how our brains work and enforcing it is in the same ballpark as thought policing.