We keep hearing about how the entertainment industry needs strong copyright in order to create incentives for the creation of new and original content, saying that without such things, there would be no new creative works at all. And, at the same time, we have the very same people mocking any cultural attempts to build new content by remixing and mashing up old works into something new. So I'm curious to see how those same people explain the fact that Hollywood's entire focus these days seems to be on taking old works and redoing them, rather than creating new and "unique" stories:


In fact, over the next 12 months, audiences can expect to see a new episode or version of Planet Of The Apes, The Avengers, Spider-Man, Fright Night, The Great Gatsby, When Worlds Collide, RoboCop, Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark, The Thing, Creature From The Black Lagoon, The Raven, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Red Dawn and Footloose.

Add those to recent updated versions of Winnie The Pooh, Clash Of The Titans, Karate Kid, Alice In Wonderland, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, War Of The Worlds, Arthur, Charlotte's Web, The Tourist and A Nightmare On Elm Street.

And deja vu happens when you turn the television on too.

This fall ABC are bringing back the 1970s series Charlie's Angels, FOX is awakening The Flintstones, MTV has its hands on Teen Wolf, and we've already been slapped with Aaron Spelling's 90210 and Melrose Place on the CW, while NBC re-imagined The Bionic Woman and Knight Rider.


But Hollywood is producing all these wonderful "new" and creative works, right? And remixing old works isn't creative at all?