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Session 1: "Great Artists Steal (With Permission)"

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Date: Jan 26, 2022, 19:00 JST Meetup link: Asynchronous Study: In the #creative-coding channel

πŸ’­ Creative Prompt πŸ’­

✨ β€œGood artists borrow, great artists steal.” ✨

β€œThe quote in this form was a favorite of Steve Jobs but he but he was probably (mis)quoting Pablo Picasso who said β€œLesser artists borrow; great artists steal” – who in turn might be rephrasing Igor Stravinsky, but both sayings may well originate in T. S. Eliot’s dictum: β€œImmature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn.” – The origins of this quote itself is an example of great artists stealing.”

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Tonight's goal 🎯

Can you take an existing software idea and "make it into something better" by injecting your own creativity? Example: is an online word game that's recently become popular. Many people are copying it and adding their own special flair.

Examples πŸ’­

  • Accessibility for WORDLE

  • Like WORDLE but in Swedish

  • Aggregates WORDLE shares across Twitter:

  • Japanese WORDLE:

  • Google WORDLE easter egg:

If you don't know what to work on:

Try "remixing" or forking and changing a feature of the game, such as

  • Using a new dictionary

  • Changing the rules of the game

  • Adding randomness

  • Changing the UI

Word Game Resources

Word Lists

Intellectual Property Considerations πŸ‘€

Since we bring up the topic of "stealing," we'd also like to address the ethical concerns of intellectual property. Please consider the following when borrowing or using other's work

  • Are you giving credit to the original source?

  • Are you changing it enough to make it your own?

  • Is there a power dynamic between the source and the user? E.g. Cultural appropriation, where a dominant culture may take the creative work of a minority group and use it, often without proper context or permission.

There are no simple answers here, but we ask you to be considerate of others and ensure your work is significantly derivative and properly cited. If you have questions, we can help!

Open Source Information

Is the use legal? E.g. does it fall under a permissive use, such as Fair Use (), Parody Law (), an open-source license, etc.?

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https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Tokyo/events/283171428/
Women Who Code Slack
https://web.archive.org/web/20220209094627/https://www.uvu.edu/arts/applause/posts/stealing.html
Wordle
https://wa11y.co/
https://glitch.com/~swordle
https://glitch.com/~wordleshares
https://aseruneko.github.io/WORDLEja/
https://mashable.com/article/wordle-google-easter-egg
https://glitch.com/~worble
https://github.com/hannahcode/wordle
https://developer.wordnik.com/
https://github.com/wordnik/wordlist
https://github.com/hannahcode/wordle/tree/main/src/constants
https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/what-is-fair-use/
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/parody
https://choosealicense.com/