Backlash against "Japanese are good imitators"
critical importance of language
Related: Increased Productivity through Programming Languages.
Golf Practice
penmanship
Steve Jobs: Good artists copy, great artists steal
The theory that what is said depends on the outcome, not the process of imitation.
Tarde Types of Imitation.
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Imitation and counterfeit copycat.
What about Motivation for imitation?
Fan, desire for assimilation.
make money by copying - economic rationality
Economy, Law, Moral
Propagation of civilization: economic rationality
Agriculture would not be an agrarian civilization if it were not more economically rational.
Articles of Imitation, Surprisingly Few
U.S. triple compensation for willful infringement.
Innovation and invention developed using.
sore loser
Shuhari model
IBM lobbied so that software could be patented.
I thought it was AT&T, not IBM." src pointed out.
「 Creativity and classics are the two wheels of tradition 、 There is no tradition without creation. 」
Meiji Restoration
Geographic Factors in Japan
law
Encouraging imitation
Some exceptions are prohibited.
Balance between protection and utilization
sequential order
- growth mimicry and Stagnant Imitation
Are there countries that Japan should use as references?
How to make the most of Galaga
Kitty and Hatsune Miku
Strategies that Allow Imitation
It's not imitation that's bad.
What's wrong is imitation without respect.
What is respect?
future prediction
Watt steam engine
We didn't build it from scratch.
Widespread because of the positive "economic rationality" of the improvements.
Failure of smart phones
premature
But as a result, there was plenty of IP.
Shifting Strategies
Blank CDs are selling better than the population.
Music has been copied.
→iPod
Sony, on the other hand, uses CCCD.
groupware has an organization and an individual joins it.
I think there will be a personal hub of software first, and then it will be connected after the fact.
I think Scrapbox (especially if you've created a personal project) is pretty close to that.
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