{"id":939,"date":"2006-06-19T13:15:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T17:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2006-06-24T00:52:44","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T04:52:44","slug":"they-wont-write-the-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"They Won&#8217;t Write The Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And they won&#8217;t design the products. Or author the books. Or develop significant new ideas. Not when the culture in which they&#8217;re living thinks it&#8217;s okay to copy. And that&#8217;s the cultural issue\/problem being reported <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/education\/5093286.stm\">over on the BBC today (Link)<\/a> and it&#8217;s something about which I&#8217;ve also expressed concern. From the short report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many of the new generation of students raised on the internet see nothing wrong with copying other people&#8217;s work, says Professor Sally Brown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I had to guess I&#8217;d say we&#8217;ll have a creativity peek in the short term as artists\/musicians\/writers\/designers use the tools now available to them to do some interesting things. But after that, if there&#8217;s no change in the Copy Culture, I expect a long slide into Boring. So stock up on exciting, innovative stuff now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And they won&#8217;t design the products. Or author the books. Or develop significant new ideas. Not when the culture in which they&#8217;re living thinks it&#8217;s okay to copy. And that&#8217;s the cultural issue\/problem being reported over on the BBC today &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=939\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}