Brilliant impersonators We prize originality, yet humans are natural-born copycats and only good imitators survive. Is it time to celebrate the rip-off? by Kat McGowan Imitation might be a form of flattery, but it is also a good way to end up in legal trouble. More than 6,000 lawsuits over patent infringements were filed in the United States last year. Samsung and Apple, locked in what’s been called the bloodiest corporate war in history, have jointly spent more than $1 billion in the past four years trying to prove that one poached the other’s smartphone technology. Link: aeon.co/magazine/science/imitation-is-what-makes-us-human-and-creativ/
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