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The only good patent model I've seen is where a firm will employee an engineer and license their work from them for a time, but that individual inventor gets the benefits of their IP.
In my ideal world where copyright has to exist, it's solely for the benefit of the individual artists and is split between the production staff. Studios exist as talent incubators that license characters to fund a production where the profits mostly go to staff. I think it would be a good patronage model for all the creative and technical roles involved in a production, incentivising the people doing the work to make a better product and keeping control in their hands instead of an executive's. With enough small projects or one large one, a camera operator or soundtrack violinist could have the passive income to make whatever they want.