Lethem by Abby Wolfe https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u en-us 2025-02-18 21:50:02 UTC 2025-03-31 02:31:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/8.0/png/1f4d3.png Main argument 1 anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333349997 Everyone borrows and nothing is genuinely original.

Everyone gets influenced.

]]> 2025-02-18 21:53:14 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333349997 Example anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333350117 Ex. Shakespear, musicians

]]> 2025-02-18 21:53:26 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333350117 Quote anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333355426 "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"

]]> 2025-02-18 22:02:13 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333355426 Support 3 anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333357488 Making an idea/creation one's own property is new.

Copyright is new.

]]> 2025-02-18 22:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333357488 Idea anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333359594 It's all a money game.

Property rights were invented in the 18th century.

Capitalism brought out copyright-like laws.

]]> 2025-02-18 22:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333359594 Support 2 anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333360660 Creativity depends on borrowing.

]]> 2025-02-18 22:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333360660 Quote anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333361085 "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."

]]> 2025-02-18 22:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333361085 Support 1 anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333364085 The idea that one can have a completely original thought/creation is a myth.

"Original genius"

]]> 2025-02-18 22:16:50 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333364085 Counterargument anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333372000 Copyright laws allow the creator to profit off of their creation(s).

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]]> 2025-02-18 22:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333372000 Lethem's Response anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333373121 "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."

]]> 2025-02-18 22:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333373121 Counterargument 2 anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333374349 Where does borrowing stop and plagiarism start?

]]> 2025-02-18 22:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333374349 Lethem's Response anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333375385 It is more a process of creating a new idea based off of an old one, but the line is blurry.

]]> 2025-02-18 22:35:53 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333375385 Cultural borrowing anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333378601 Process by which one culture adopts elements, practices, or ideas from another culture

]]> 2025-02-18 22:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333378601 Intellectual property anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333379584 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.

]]> 2025-02-18 22:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333379584 Public domain anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333380664 The state of belonging or being available to the public as a whole, and therefore not subject to copyright.

]]> 2025-02-18 22:44:07 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333380664 Sampling anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333382646 The technique of digitally encoding music or sound and reusing it as part of a composition or recording.

]]> 2025-02-18 22:47:21 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3333382646 Cryptomnesia anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3339700197 Occurs when a forgotten memory returns without its being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new and original.


]]> 2025-02-24 05:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3339700197 Example anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3339700754 The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed was accused of borrowing from earlier music without realizing it.

]]> 2025-02-24 05:50:02 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3339700754 Example anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3339709727 Bob Dylan-- "Desolation Row" has a lot of artistic and literary influence.

Art happens in a vacuum with reinvention.

"Genius" but not original

]]> 2025-02-24 06:00:38 UTC https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3339709727 anw108 https://padlet.com/anw108/gdbmizmd3v4w8r3u/wish/3339724235 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.

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