Creativity

" Is it legal to have sexy daydreams about Star Trek's Captain Kirk and share them in writing with others? Can a company appropriate a folk tradition and then claim it as private property?...This chapter explains the strange anomalies that occur when copyright and trademark law become so dominant that ordinary 'people's culture' the everyday creativity and sharing that occur in human communities, becomes stigmatized or illegal.>>

For most of human history, the human imagination has been unfettered. Creativity has arisen and flowed among people, and within communities, without anyone claiming stories, song, or images as private property. The idea of anyone owning whaling songs, folk stores, or quilting patterns would strike the people of the eighteen and nineteenth centuries as absurd, or at least antisocial. Indeed, such communal ownership and sharing was and is part of the beauty of folk music, fairy tales, ethnic dances, handicrafts and native traditions. They flourish on their own, without money, contracts, lawyers, stories or advertising."

This is what David said.