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Everyone borrows and nothing is genuinely original.

Everyone gets influenced.

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Ex. Shakespear, musicians

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"The idea of the creator working in a vacuum—of a mind or an artist’s work emerging from an isolated and uniquely personal space—has always been, at best, a fable"

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Making an idea/creation one's own property is new.

Copyright is new.

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It's all a money game.

Property rights were invented in the 18th century.

Capitalism brought out copyright-like laws.

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Creativity depends on borrowing.

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"In popular music, the art of sampling—taking existing bits of sound and reshaping them into something new—has been a crucial creative tool, and this is true not just for music but for all the arts."

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The idea that one can have a completely original thought/creation is a myth.

"Original genius"

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Copyright laws allow the creator to profit off of their creation(s).

$$$

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"The copyright holder’s control, in this case, is not only about ownership of the object or text but the much broader act of limiting others’ access to the creative building blocks of culture."

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Where does borrowing stop and plagiarism start?

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It is more a process of creating a new idea based off of an old one, but the line is blurry.

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Process by which one culture adopts elements, practices, or ideas from another culture

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A work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a manuscript or a design, to which one has rights and for which one may apply for a patent, copyright, trademark.

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The state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright.

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The technique of digitally encoding music or sound and reusing it as part of a composition or recording.

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Occurs when a forgotten memory returns without its being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original.

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The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed was accused of borrowing from earlier music without realizing it.

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Bob Dylan-- "Desolation Row" has a lot of artistic and literary influence.

Art happens in a vacuum with reinvention.

"Genius" but not original

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Nabokov wrote “Lolita” after Lichberg did and Lethem is wondering if Nabokov knew that he was copying Lichberg or if he just memorized the story and made it his own unknowingly. Lethem is wondering if Nabokov had cryptomnesia.