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The Ecstasy of Influence - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "Thomas Jefferson, for one, considered copyright a necessary evil: he favored providing just enough incentive to create, nothing more, and thereafter allowing ides to flow freely, as nature intended. His conception of copyright was enshrined in the Constitution, which gives Congress the authority to 'promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing Writings and Discoveries.' This was a balancing act between creators and society as a whole; second comers might do a better job than the originator than the original idea." (Page 238)
        
        Lethem does not explicitly say that artists rely on art to make living, however, the use of the quote shows that Lethem agrees with the basic concept on copyright: to protect intellectual property and to encourage artists ti pursue their passions.
  - - - "... the purchasing of a bootleg copy of a Hollywood film is compared to the theft of a car or a handbag-- and, as the bullying supertitles remind us, 'You wouldn't steal a handbag!' This conflation forms an incitement to quit thinking. If I were to tell you that pirating DVDs or downloading music is no different than loaning a friend a book, my argument would be as ethically bankrupt as the MPPA's. The truth lies somewhere in the gray area between these two overstated positions. For a car or a handbag, once stolen, no longer is available to its owner, while the appropriation of an article of 'intellectual property' leaves the original untouched." (Page 239)
        
        Although Lethem doesn't say it outright, we can infer from this quote that he believes that intellectual property is of value. People should not be able to take it when they please, especially when the creator or the public has nothing to gain from it.
- - - - "Dylan's art offer a paradox: while it famously urges us not to look back, it also encodes a knowledge of past sources that might otherwise have little home in contemporary culture, like the Civil War poetry ion the Confederate bard Henry Timrod, resuscitated in lyrics on Dylan's newest record, Modern Times. Dylan's originality and his appropriation are as one" (Page 233)
  - - - "Literature has always been a crucible in which familiar themes are continually recast. Little of what we admire in Nabokov's Lolita is to be found in its predecessor; the former is in no way deducible from the latter." (Page 232)
        
        Lolita by Nabokov