Copyright and Creativity

Copyright and Creativity: Authors and Photographers

The history of the occupations “author” and “photographer” provides an insightful perspective on copyright and creativity. The concept of the romantic author, associated with personal creative genius, gained prominence in the eighteenth century. However, in the U.S. in 1900 only about three thousand persons professed their occupation to be “author.” Self-professed “photographers” were then abou...

Innovation and Creativity in the Fine Arts: The Relevance and Irrelevance of Copyright

Does Copyright Law Promote Creativity? An Empirical Analysis of Copyright’s Bounty

Creativity. Creativity! Creativity?

Once we accept that there is something called creativity we are led to wonder how are the creative people and what are the creative acts. This wonderment compels us to understand the underlying cognitive process in a creative act and the hardware requirements for this process to go on. We then arrive at a position for seeking an implementable model of and the paradoxicalness involved therein. T...

Creativity and Autism - Quantifying Creativity

There is lot of research going on currently in identification of Autism and also identification of characteristic in autistic people. There is lot of theories put in place. But one of the main issues has been how to measure these characteristics. There has been so much of research in analysis of creativity in autistic individuals. These research works have enlightened so many positive traits wh...