@article{28003,
      recid = {28003},
      author = {Frosio, Giancarlo.},
      title = {Reconciling Copyright with Cumulative Creativity : The  Third Paradigm.},
      pages = {400 pages ;},
      abstract = {Reconciling Copyright with Cumulative Creativity: The  Third Paradigm examines the long history of creativity,  from cave art to digital remix, in order to demonstrate a  consistent disparity between the traditional cumulative  mechanics of creativity and modern copyright policies.    From Platonic mimesis to Shakespeare’s ‘borrowed feathers’,  culture was produced under a paradigm in which imitation,  plagiarism, and social authorship formed key elements of  the creative moment (the 1st paradigm). However, the  cumulative nature of creativity is rarely accounted for in  modern copyright policies, which build upon a post-Romantic  individualistic view emphasizing absolute originality  rather than imitation (the 2nd paradigm). Today, in an era  of networked mass collaboration and user-based creativity,  the enclosure of knowledge brought about by an  ever-expanding copyright paradigm seems archaic, and a  deliberate defiance of inevitable cultural evolution.    Giancarlo Frosio calls for returning creativity to an  inclusive rather than exclusive process, so that the 1st  and 2nd creative paradigms can be reconciled into an  emerging third paradigm. This ground-breaking work will  appeal to those interested in both the history and future  of creativity and copyright.},
      url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/28003},
}