> Turns out a lot of people's creativity is limited to what someone else has already made.
This describes the vast majority of creative works and is therefore a significant part of how we define creativity to begin with. Very few people are capable of turning their lived experiences into art without prior examples. Any character anyone creates is copyrighted by default, does this mean we should ban people from creating derivatives of anything?
The existing norms around intellectual property are broken. They benefit the instrumental bean counters more than passionate creators. We need copyleft, not copyright.
When Steve Jobs died, many people posting "in memoriam" of him used that B&W photo (you know which one). I found it quite interesting how Apple users are supposedly creative types, but they just copied that photo...
That's human psychology for you. I could create an entirely new universe of characters, and it could be the most amazing and wonderful thing ever, but, uh, hey, the next person over there has this thing with Pokemon in it. Omg is that Pikachu‽
> Turns out a lot of people's creativity is limited to what someone else has already made.
This describes the vast majority of creative works and is therefore a significant part of how we define creativity to begin with. Very few people are capable of turning their lived experiences into art without prior examples. Any character anyone creates is copyrighted by default, does this mean we should ban people from creating derivatives of anything?
The existing norms around intellectual property are broken. They benefit the instrumental bean counters more than passionate creators. We need copyleft, not copyright.
> Turns out a lot of people's creativity is limited to what someone else has already made.
It's how Disney got started. Then pulled up the ladder behind them by lobbying for ever longer copyright.
When Steve Jobs died, many people posting "in memoriam" of him used that B&W photo (you know which one). I found it quite interesting how Apple users are supposedly creative types, but they just copied that photo...
That's human psychology for you. I could create an entirely new universe of characters, and it could be the most amazing and wonderful thing ever, but, uh, hey, the next person over there has this thing with Pokemon in it. Omg is that Pikachu‽
Which one is gonna win a popularity contest?