Copy right versus copy share

Now… …let’s reference.

copy - late 14c., from Old French copier (14c.), from Medieval Latin copiare "to transcribe”

right - from Proto-Germanic *rekhtaz (cf. Old High German reht, German recht, Old Norse rettr, and Gothic raihts)

share - "portion," Old English scearu "a cutting, shearing, division"

…as not make it appear as though I came up with those words on my own… …I want am contractually obligated to let you know that… …as not make it appear as though I came up with those words on my own… …I stole them.

I stole these ones, as well. Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that ‘plagiarism’ farce! As if there was much of anything in any human utterance, oral or written, except plagiarism! The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism. Mark Twain’s Letters Vol. 2 of 2

Copy right versus copy share

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You can’t argue one without the other… …because this is the root issue. Does originality exist?

Creativity doesn’t, in other words, happen in a vacuum – creative ideas are always inspired, nurtured, cajoled, and spurred forward by other ideas. Which means that creative people are always drawing on the work of others, consciously or unconsciously. Theoretically, there are a finite number of thoughts. Colossal beyond comprehension, but finite nonetheless. Therefore it stands to reason that over the course of human history somebody has thought what you have thought, and that technically makes your thoughts unoriginal. I do believe nothing can come out of nothing. It's impossible to be original in concepts, that's philosophical, but in the superficial sense, in the outer layer of life, originality is very existent. Ecclesiastes 1:9 - What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

Disclaimer: I did not take this picture. “Originality is just connecting things.” - Steve Jobs Disclaimer: I did not take this picture.

Ideas are a sum of unoriginality. sweater vest sweater+vest = originality Ideas are a sum of unoriginality. But someone (the British) decided at some point (1710) that you can, essentially, own a sequence of ideas (Statute of Anne).

Not to be outdone, the U.S. came up with the idea of “fair use” 200 years later. The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author’s observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported. http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

Not to be outdone, the U.S. came up with the idea of “fair use” 200 years later. The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author’s observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported. http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

And though the idea of copy right is a joke… …I choose to agree with it because of the fine print. quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson;

But… …just as soon as someone…

…wounds my pride… …profits… …graces more magazine covers than me…

…on account of my sequence of ideas…

…the joke...

…will stop being funny. - Not my child

References "Taking the Mystery out of Copyright." Library of Congress. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Nov. 2009. http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/. Good K-12 student reference - refer to Files on Record - Timeline of Copyright Milestones. "U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use." U.S. Copyright Office. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Nov. 2009. http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html. Twain, M. (1910). Mark Twain's Letters. Public Domain: Classic Literature Library.