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A fun historical example that predates our current views on copyright is the Arthurian Canon. There are settings, characters and deeds that are recurrent, or necessary to understand the "franchise" so-to-speak, but other than that sometimes it goes to weird, fanfictiony places, and sometimes additions to the existing canon catch on and become part of it.
Thinking about it, a lot of folklore is like that, too: collectively owned, in constant motion, but keeping key elements so that it is still recognizable, and compelling.
Don't know if this is helpful, but I wanted to share.