Original is an adjective used to describe something which was seen or felt or done et cetera for the first time in known history. Innovative, creative, authentic and real. By definition, this thing has a flavour of procreation, someone generating something one of a kind and maybe the first of the species.
How does one create an original piece of a thing? A song, a poem, a sculpture, a machine, a language even? What is it that inspires a man to create or innovate?
It's either something existing or a thought. Well, but then, a thought also exists, indeed in another realm of being (the metaphysical) , but still it does exist and for sure can be transformed and realised in the physical world.
Now then, if something existing inspires one to create a new type of a thing, shouldn't the so created 'thing' be a reflection of sum of all its inspirations?
In which case, won't it be right to say that it wasn't an original work at all since it's an assimilation of things transformed from various other existing things?
We all have a fair share of participating in innovation and we bestow credit to anyone who has been able to establish that he had thought of and built something which no one has ever thought of or materialised. But is it a true representation of facts?
In fact, shouldn't the copyright be given to the maker of the inspirations, rolled up right till the most (due to the absence of a better word) atomic level? Say, from the musician who composes a sonnet to the notes...right till the end, to the maker of music itself? From the scientist, the maker of a theory to hypotheses, to physically verifiable phenomena...right till the end, to the creator of all those phenomena. From the artist who puts together his thoughts in a painting to the colours and his perspective to the thoughts which induced the perspective and imagined those colours...right till the end, to the maker of colours and sense of beauty itself, the one who fashioned the dimensions of a thought itself? Anyone up for patents?
