Originality vs Creativity

By Roman Cheng

The Copyright Works
Just attended a lecture on Copyrights Law yesterday, it talks about the definition of Copyright Works. It also inspires me to revisit to the meaning of Originality in the Creation process which is an indispensible part in a Magician's Mind. Before we could be truly creative, it worths to start from basic principles. Let's ask a question, what is the difference between Creativity and Originality?

The Myth of Originality
In Law, Originality means two things. Firstly, you have to author the idea independent of others' idea. It means that the idea needs to come out of your own brain, you do not copy the idea from others. Secondly, it requires you to apply sufficient skills and labour in the works. Once these two conditions are satisfied, your works are automatically protected by the Copyrights Ordinance. When it comes to creativity, it may mean to combine two different original idea into a final thing. The things are not necessarily original, however applying enough twist and wisdom, you present it as a new creation ! So everyone can be creative, but only hardly a small portion of people would come up with idea which is in fact new and original in essence.

So Everyone can be Creative !
I like to observe, think and apply! Kids are lovely and like to play a lot always. When it comes to creativity, human are inborn with this instinct since early stage. Let me give you an observation.
In mother's day, I met my lovely nephew. When we are almost finished with our dinner in a nice chinese restaurant. He came to me and asked me to play playing cards with him. For your information, I started to play playing cards with my nephew since he was a 6-month baby! This is a common "habit" for magician to play cards very often and in fact they usually carry a deck of cards with them anytime! However this time, I did not play cards with him as the table was full of dishes. On sparks, I played a story-telling game with him ! Surprisingly, we played the game quite well, we take turns to tell a story line, we could play it for a very long time. This is a good observation that we could create by nature, but just if we would put in efforts through the process. In fact, creation is only a process!

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