Copyright law must strike a delicate balance between the long-term need to encourage innovation and the short-term use of work already created (Arnold Plant, 1934; William D. Nordhaus, 1969). This balance depends on the extent to which stronger copyright protection actually stimulates creative activity, which in turn depends on two effects. One is the impact of copyright on the income of author...

This article presents the results of an online creativity experiment (N = 81) that examines the effect of example timing on creative output. In the between-subjects experiment, participants drew animals to inhabit an alien Earth-like planet while being exposed to examples early, late, or repeatedly during the experiment. We find that exposure to examples increases conformity. Early exposure to ...

This paper presents an approach that supports creative knowledge work by re-presenting information that the user has previously used. The Phantasmic Shadows system uses a set of presently used information pieces as a way to imply the user’s current interest. The system then sorts previously viewed information pieces in the order of the computed relevance to the user’s current interest, and pres...

This article proposes a unified framework for understanding creative problem solving, namely, the explicit-implicit interaction theory. This new theory of creative problem solving constitutes an attempt at providing a more unified explanation of relevant phenomena (in part by reinterpreting/integrating various fragmentary existing theories of incubation and insight). The explicit-implicit inter...

In what ways does acting represent a form of work? From one perspective, the work is taken to mean exercising artistic and creative craft: techniques, actions, procedures involved with portraying character. Yet also means employment, state being ‘in work’ for pay. Once we begin think about as job, however, must acknowledge how endemic job insecurity routinely sees actors regularly experiencing ...