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I have a few thoughts on ownership of ideas, copyright law, Marxist, and various other whatnot. Until I can get them all in order, here's a tasty website about plagiarists.

The idea of originality has always been important to me, and is becoming more important as time goes on, I become older, and realize that the old line "nothing new under the sun" is pretty true. Incidentally, I had forgotten that was a Bible verse--if you're interested in the rest of the quote, click on the link to your left.

Jack Valenti reminds me of Bush in a way. He takes a right-seeming, right-sounding idea that ignorant masses wouldn't think twice about, and parlays it into a big pile of bullshit nonsense to serve his own (evil) purposes. Creative property owners do not have the same rights as other property owners, because creativity is different. I looked up copyright laws, it's a bunch of bureaucratic messiness you need an MBA to decipher. Is it true that there are no novel ideas, no originality? Is everything written and filmed and recorded basically a rearranged jigsaw puzzle of recycled ideas? Maybe. Working at a movie theater, I can testify that there is a serious lack of originality within the film industry, as I see the same old cliches and jokes in virtually every romantic comedy. Listen to your local hip-hop station, I'll give you a dollar if you can tell me the difference between the songs. Same old shit, different day. Here's a question for you--who's taking ownership for the STUPID ideas? Watch dis, it'll blow your mind:


I was glad for Lessig's description of why we can't all do whatever we want to do, I've always known that's true, but the actual constraints of the law, norms, architecture, and the market put it into imaginable frames. Too bad the norms constraint is shrinking.