When reading "Database and the Essay" all I could think about was the English language, or any for the matter. If we didn't understand that we have to share English and the way it's used we wouldn't have much or anything. What if someone could own the letter "S"? Doesn't matter the font. or if someone owned the sound "Ssssssssss"? We'd be screwed. But what happens when we really screw one person over from "remixes"? James Brown's drummer Clyde Stubblefield is the most sampled drummer in rap and hip-hop music but he doesn't get anything for being the best.
It was also really interesting to me how there isn't a way in which we teach to write with or using intertexuality. How are we supposed to say anything new without knowing how to speak and knowing what has been said? How are we supposed to improve physics if we are islands? What if Isaac Newton's work wasn't available for everyone? What if the Qur'an or the Bible wasn't available or Harry Potter? At what point do things become truly public? And how do we deal/care about homage and compensation? Is there an equaling value to it? Does the elite fall a little?
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