That Ain't Nothing New (But Does it Matter?) The Genius of Business Ideas Rediscovered
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There are rarely ever brand “new” ideas. Inventions are often old ideas recycled, enhanced and marketed in a new method and format. This is all called freewheeling innovation and this is how society (and technology) progresses. You cannot be afraid to take someone else’s ideas, improve on it and claim the idea as your own. This “thievery” is almost the lifeline of innovation.
Recent technological advancements have been mostly regulated to the corporate level, but inter-corporate dealings prove the freewheeling innovation theory. Corporate giants are constantly confronting each other in front of judges, arguing about whether one firm has copied technology invented by another firm. If nothing else, this proves to you and me that copying others is a hallmark of inventions.
Now, if only our courts would understand this concept, the little guys would have a much better chance. Corporations are constantly copying each other’s ideas and improving upon them. They also have the resources to defend their improvements in court, unlike most individuals, who cannot fight against a litany of highly remunerated, bloodthirsty corporate lawyers.
Yet, you cannot and should not let this hold you back as the only chance you have to being sued is if you have successfully introduced something “new” which is actually hurting sales of a big corporate monster. A lawsuit against you will only confirm your success. The notion that new ideas and products are invented is just a creation myth. Whether it’s the progress of ideas or tangible products, supposedly “new” concepts are almost always derived from old concepts
L. David Harris
L. David Harris is a commissioning editor, public speaker, voiceover artist, freelance writer, cartoon mash-up/infographic artist, and author with almost 20 years of professional experience. His passion is to use words and technology responsibly as effective agents of change, the world over. As such, he considers any contribution he makes in these ways, a privilege.
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That Ain't Nothing New (But Does it Matter?) The Genius of Business Ideas Rediscovered - L. David Harris
Copyright © 2015 by L. David Harris
That Ain’t Nothing New (But Does it Matter?)
The Genius of Business Ideas Rediscovered
by L. David Harris
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: THEFT IS THE THRUST OF INNOVATION
CHAPTER 2: GENERATING IDEAS
CHAPTER 3: INNOVATION CHALLENGES
CHAPTER 4: FIRST MOVERS AND FAST FOLLOWERS
CHAPTER 5: INNOVATION IS (NOT) STEALING
A FINAL WORD
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Introduction
Hotel California, the popular rock music song from the late 1970s, which is still revered and widely listened to until now, was stolen! That’s right, the Eagles copied the song. In 2009, the song was certified Platinum – Digital Sales Award, by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for selling over a million copies, downloaded digitally. Hotel California topped Billboard charts in 1977 and was ranked number 49 on The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
, a list compiled by the highly esteemed Rolling Stones magazine. But, the song was burglarized and no one seems to care, heaping accolades for the song and its writers’ decades after the original release.
Ian Anderson, lead singer of an old band, Jethro Tull, acknowledged that the Eagles had toured with his band in the early 1970s and it is not a mere coincidence that the popular Hotel California
song displays striking similarities to Jethro Tull’s song We Used to Know.
Anderson showed great poise while discussing the uncanny resemblance between the two songs, arguing the Eagles may have internalized the song and then subconsciously re-introduced the musical tune in their popular Hotel California
song.
He goes on to state it’s highly unlikely to discover a chord sequence, which hasn’t been previously played. It’s almost guaranteed mathematically that if you play a guitar looking for something new, you will eventually string together bits of old tunes rearranged to form your song. Inventions in all other spheres of life take the same route as innovations in the music industry.
There are rarely ever brand new
ideas. Inventions are often old ideas recycled, enhanced and marketed in a new method and format. This is all called freewheeling innovation and this