Personally, I think it's funny that people get so bent out of shape about "owning" creativity, but that's a whole 'nother matter.
My reaction is more like: "People have been borrowing each other's ideas for as long as there have been ideas, who cares?" I just think it's kinda ridiculous that people look at something as lesser quality if it's not "original".
The point of my examples was that there are things that make sense to do once, and then not do all over from scratch, in most activities that people do. If I were designing a website (god forbid), I would use similar design elements to those I'd seen work well for others in the past, and probably would copy and paste the code instead of typing it all out myself, and if I had any design skills of my own whatsoever I would probably copy my own work the same way, too. I doubt anyone would think that was odd. Sometimes I start entirely from scratch when I paint a painting, but a lot of times I use designs I've used before or seen others use before, and if I were painting something like a portrait or a still life the whole point of the painting would to copy what I saw as accurately as possible. But sure, I can see that depending on whether you're trying to make the point of "Ha ha let's mock Disney" or "actually Disney's not so bad", examples illustrating either point could easily be found. ;-)
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My reaction is more like: "People have been borrowing each other's ideas for as long as there have been ideas, who cares?" I just think it's kinda ridiculous that people look at something as lesser quality if it's not "original".
The point of my examples was that there are things that make sense to do once, and then not do all over from scratch, in most activities that people do. If I were designing a website (god forbid), I would use similar design elements to those I'd seen work well for others in the past, and probably would copy and paste the code instead of typing it all out myself, and if I had any design skills of my own whatsoever I would probably copy my own work the same way, too. I doubt anyone would think that was odd. Sometimes I start entirely from scratch when I paint a painting, but a lot of times I use designs I've used before or seen others use before, and if I were painting something like a portrait or a still life the whole point of the painting would to copy what I saw as accurately as possible. But sure, I can see that depending on whether you're trying to make the point of "Ha ha let's mock Disney" or "actually Disney's not so bad", examples illustrating either point could easily be found. ;-)