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Originally Posted by hardcastle
I don't agree. Creation doesn't happen in vacuum. If we argue that creation is a process that creates something from nothing, then we've changed the playing field entirely. But that's not the case. Creation is as much remix as it is innovation, if not more so. As much as some content creators like to argue that they are a self-sufficient island, they are influenced and pull from ideas in the public domain and popular culture as much as anyone else.
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And even if they could prove that they didn't borrow from the Public Domain or the culture in which they live they would still have to admit that others around them had had an influence on them. It's likely that William Shakespeare never committed a murder but he knew what his society exacted as punishment for the act and it's likely he knew at least some of the feelings that could drive one to murder. i.e. Anger & Jealousy. Not to mention envy and the desire to have something that another has. That's part of being human.