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> This judgment is the equivalent of someone taking a movie script, shooting a new movie out of it without changing a word, and the court declaring this "fair use" of the script.

Ethics aside, as a viewer, it'd be kind of cool if this were a thing. Small-time movie makers might like it too.




Shot for shot remakes have been a thing for half a century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot-for-shot

In fact, they've become a fannish pastime the past few years: https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/20/16006112/revenge-of-the-s...




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