This article mainly talks about creativity and copyright, being creative with something but at the sometime not stealing other people’s ideas/ concepts without giving credit to the creator/inventor (copyright).
Copyright acts restricting the stretch of imagination and creation as it limits people to what they can do with its laws. Is this a good or bad thing? Different people would have different opinions on this. For me, everything invented today somehow came from links of different ideas from different people put together to form the masterpiece. With that said, it is still essential to give credit to the original creators before one uses that same idea and expends it.
The article touches on how Mickey Mouse expended using different ideas from different people and putting it together to build his own version of masterpiece. First, Disney took the idea of introducing synchronized sound by The Jazz Singer.
Next, Disney expended its creativity by bringing in animation; using synchronized cartoons with the inspiration of Bustler Keaton’s Steamboat Bill, Jr which is none other than synchronized comic! Here one would be able to clearly see the expend of Disney from cartoons to comic but somehow still using the same main idea which is Mickey Mouse using different media with different tools.
Similarly to the above example, today we have many different social media such as Friendster, Facebook and even Twitter using the same concept but made from different companies with slightly different features to distinguish them-selves. But if you look closely, the main idea is still the same; to connect and reconnect with people.
My take on this is, it is only natural for us to use different ideas from different people and put it together with our own idea to create something better. Just like Facebook versus Twitter. However, with all said and done, the right thing to do is obviously to give credit to the original creator.
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