Twain on Creativity
Alex Wexelblat,
Copyfight,
May 30, 2012
Mark Twain was someone who saw through the more persistent myths of his time - and ours. "It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing--and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite--that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that." I have seen this phenomenon time and time again, and have discussed it here. Copyfight, meanwhile, is grappling with the issue as it relates to movies based on comic book heroes.
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