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Is Imitation Bad for the Production of Creative Works?

Review of Network Economics, 2020
AbstractThis paper develops a theoretical framework to discuss the positive role of imitative works where creators often have private information about their creative abilities and may need outside investment. Within this framework, we consider the impact of three types of copyright protection during the different stages: the production, distribution ...
Sang Hoo Bae, Kyeongwon Yoo
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Creative imitation in the Hebrew Bible

Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 2000
The source of creative composition for many forms of literature was well recognized by literary critics in antiquity to be in the imitation of older literary works and this has been a major concern of literary criticism in modern classical studies as well.
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Chapter 3. Creative Imitation

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Creative Imitation and Latin Literature

1979
The poets and prose-writers of Greece and Rome were acutely conscious of their literary heritage. They expressed this consciousness in the regularity with which, in their writings, they imitated and alluded to the great authors who had preceded them.
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The Anxiety of Imitation: On the “Boringness" of Creative Turing Tests

2020
The authors speculate why some are bored by the goal of computational generation of "human-like" text. Inspired by Italo Calvino's alternative, minor strain in "Cybernetics and Ghosts," they argue that this kind of text generation provides an opportunity to destabilize as well as refine our sense of the differences between human and machine cognition.
Booten, Kyle, Rockmore, Dan
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“Imitation of Nature”: Toward a Prehistory of the Idea of the Creative Being

Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences, 2000
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Imitation as a Creative Vehicle in Michelangelo’s Art and Architecture

2012
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Wyatt's Petrarchism: An Instance of Creative Imitation in the Renaissance

Huntington Library Quarterly, 1965
11TA TT'S IMITATIONS of Petrarch have been illuminated by the V V sensitivity and learning of modern scholars. Their art has been shown to be independent and admirable, their attitude individual and moving.' As the original cast of these imitations becomes more clearly recognized, however, the need to understand it, both historically and aesthetically,
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Shanzhai: Creative Imitation of China in Highland Myanmar

positions: asia critique, 2022
Abstract The Wa State of Myanmar is often called “shanzhai China,” that is, a lesser imitation of China. This essay unpacks the material and symbolic implications of creative imitation at the Chinese periphery, embodied in shanzhai 山寨 practices.
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Creative Imitation in the Story of Josiah

Journal of Biblical Literature
Abstract Until the 1990s, the biblical description of King Josiah’s cult reform was usually considered to be more or less accurate, but that is now debated. This essay contributes to the debate by showing that most of the story of King Josiah is a creative imitation of the story of King Jehoash of Judah. Thus, there is no evidence for
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