Jefferson could never have foreseen the age of the app. The speed at which the transmission of ideas takes place is a game-changer. There are more ways than ever before to be vigilant about plagiarism, just as there are more ways than ever before to appropriate new material. Here the lawyers and the writers are now singing from the same sheet.
Bestselling writer David Shields has just published Reality Hunger, a passionate, ultra-hip manifesto on behalf of what he calls "appropriation art" in contemporary music, design and literature. Shields has several thrusts against copyright law which, he says, has protected "the creative property of artists", but obstructed "the natural evolution of human creativity".
He writes approvingly of the music business, in which "you steal somebody else's beat, then – with just turntables and your mouth – you mix and scratch the shit up to the level your own head is at".
Stripped of its excitable rhetoric, Reality Hunger is really a cool restatement of "anything goes", literature's oldest, and most golden, rule. Whatever medium you choose, it's still as difficult as ever to be truly original.
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