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Publication • Mar 7, 2013

Rediscovering Cumulative Creativity from the Oral Formulaic Tradition to Digital Remix: Can I Get a Witness?

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 po…

Press • Mar 1, 2013

Internet memes: copyright licensing in an IP minefield

"“A lot of his own original expression went into making that poster, notwithstanding the fact that he used an AP photograph as a reference,” says Julie Ahr…