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Rediscovering Cumulative Creativity From The Oral Formulaic Tradition To Digital Remix: Can I Get A Witness?, Giancarlo Francesco Frosio
Rediscovering Cumulative Creativity From The Oral Formulaic Tradition To Digital Remix: Can I Get A Witness?, Giancarlo Francesco Frosio
Giancarlo Francesco Frosio
For most of human history the essential nature of creativity was understood to be cumulative and collective. This notion has been largely forgotten by modern policies regulating creativity and speech. As hard as it may be to believe, the most valuable components of our immortal culture were created under a fully open regime with regard to access to pre-existing expressions and reuse. From the Platonic mimēsis to the Roman imitatio, from Macrobius’ Saturnalia to the imitatio Vergili, from medieval auctoritas and Chaucer the compilator to Anon the singer and social textuality, from Chrétien’s art of rewriting to Shakespeare’s “borrowed feathers,” …
Digital Piracy Debunked: A Short Note, Giancarlo Francesco Frosio
Digital Piracy Debunked: A Short Note, Giancarlo Francesco Frosio
Giancarlo Francesco Frosio
In the last two decades, the industry has endlessly deployed the rhetoric of the “digital threat” in order to demand harsher measures against digital piracy, peer-to-peer file sharing and the like. In fact, the uneasiness in sharing the view that harsher measures are an adequate response to copyright infringement in the digital environment comes from the uncertain grounds on which the heavy-handed reaction against digital piracy has been based. Two related arguments might run against this heavy-handed approach. First, market conditions might incentivize piracy. Additionally, there are raising doubts over the argument that piracy is a threat to creativity, especially …