From the first play-date we encounter at age 1 (or whenever it was that your parents decided to find you friends other than your stuffed animals), we are taught to share. The reasons to encourage this action? To keep you from hitting your new friend in an effort to get your toy back. To teach you to be a giver. To help you practice your patience. To teach you a skill that you will need to utilize over the Internet one day?!
I never really thought about it this way until now, but without sharing, the way in which we all compile our own unique storage "box" of information from our interactions with a different people, lessons, etc., we would probably never have as diverse of a collection of knowledge. If it weren't for these situations of sharing everything and anything we can... we would have to rely on our brains to pick up and seek out new experiences to learn first hand on our own... and no one has time for that.
One of the videos said something like, "Sharing, learn from it. Be inspired by it." I think once you have been exposed to something, there is no way that you can come up with another thing that is entirely new. You have been influenced and while people exposed to your product encouraged by the inspiration may not know of its roots, it still is based off of a work that already existed... so do we need to cite our inspiration too?
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True, creating something utterly new is very unlikely; however, your concept of sharing may be naive. In the world I occupy (not that I am particularly happy about such, btw), using shared stuff without acknowledgment can net your some major headaches.
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