You could, you'd just license them at creation time for X years. It would stop large corporations hoarding everything.

a licensing agreement is not work for hire - work for hire means the person doing the hiring owns the copyright, not the person who did the work.

	▲	Peritract 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's how it works now, but we're talking about changing it. That's the context of the conversation.