The idea that people copy because they lack creativity is powerfully harmful…To deny people the right to copy, intimately, from others, is to deny the essence of what it is to be a creative person….Creative people are supposedly those who do not copy or imitate others; copying is supposedly theft. In truth, creative people must copy and must imitate others. Our copyright laws should be changed to reflect this reality.
William Patry, senior copyright counsel at Google Inc, in an excerpt from his new book, How To Fix Copyright (via austinkleon)

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