A good editorial on a recent copyright debacle. LittleBigPlanet, a new game for the Playstation 3, is built around the concept of user-created content shared online. But what happens when that content references copyrighted works?
I like to view "writing" in this case as level creation. Because it is.
http://www.ps3informer.com/playstation-3/games/editorial-copyright-madness-hurts-gaming-009502.php
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I guess there will always be "artists" that are whiny bitches like Lars Ulrich (see: The Napster debacle of 1999-2000). Reference is free advertising. If I reference Finnegan's Wake (and I do, at length), I am doing nothing but advertising for others to pick up this wholly garbled novel and destroy THEIR souls with it.
Here's a fun little experiment in plagiarism vs. autonomy (note the work I use as well): If I take the text of Heidegger's _Being and Time_ and I list all the words used in the book as my data set and rearrange them into some new order, have I really created something new? Have I plagiarized? Meh. I choose to make garlic bread and film it.
Meh.
E.
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