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Not sure why I'm being downvoted here - I agree that this idea has been the same for most of history. Your example of folk music is an odd one, for exactly tha

by Agamus 4y ago

Not sure why I'm being downvoted here - I agree that this idea has been the same for most of history. Your example of folk music is an odd one, for exactly that reason - it largely repurposes existing art. For example, Wagner wrote extensively about why we shouldn't respect folk music for this reason. I mostly disagree with him, but his comparison at least illuminates that this isn't so black and white. And that's really just scratching the surface of a complex topic. I sense that if someone came along 2400 years ago with the exact play that Sophocles had just produced and claimed they had just composed it themselves, immediately after a public performance, someone would claim that theft had occurred. Do you disagree?

coldtea 4y ago
>I sense that if someone came along 2400 years ago with the exact play that Sophocles had just produced and claimed they had just composed it themselves, immediately after a public performance, someone would claim that theft had occurred. Do you disagree? Yes. They would say it was "plagiarism", which is different than theft. And there was no law against either case.