extending copyright term promotes rather than hinders knowledge creation. Additionally, scholars that publish copyrighted materials tend to out-perform those who do not creating a potential tension between individual incentives and the public good.
I guess avoiding reading publications promotes creativity and creating stuff from scratch. Don't read - write.
Someone may even have published essentially the same result a few years ago in a journal that your library doesn’t take
But that should be good, when two independent researches come to the same conclusion.
Moreover, when research come from different countries, each country can claim that they have discovered it first on their own. IIRC, several countries claim to owns the transistor discovery.
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Anonymous2015-07-01 1:44
How utterly perverse is this ideology. It really makes me want to reject works that come from them and only spend my time considering the works of people who are not perverse in this manner.
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Anonymous2015-07-01 2:22
A writer not wanting to read is like...a painter not wanting to collect art.
Wait... what's that you say? Great painters are rarely great art collectors? How could they know whose work to steal (er... "emulate")?
People like the author, and similar journeyman writers, will never understand a true "writer" as opposed to a "reader seeking to emulate a writer" because their desire to write is manufactured from a desire to emulate what they saw others doing. It is the difference between a truly great athlete born of profound talent and one who grew up watching his favorite sports heros, dreaming of being like them. The latter could be very successful by any conventional measure, but he will never be truly great.
Many of the greatest writers didn't read many others' works. In fact, some of the most famous made it a point to not read anyone else's work when they were writing so as to not cloud their own voice. Some people - not many, but some - have an innate talent, born within the depth of their being - that requires no rolemodel. It requires no learning curve. It is like Akiane, the little girl who was a profound painter at the age of four yet insisted upon not going to any art museum. Her voice came from another source.
Reading is fine, and I certainly enjoy it, but it's absurd to suggest a great writer must be a great reader to learn how to write. A person making such a claim knows not what makes a great writer.
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