Is creativity an exercise in invention or discovery?
If it is the latter, attribution is all that is warranted, but even that will be a bit silly. Does it really matter which particular human gets credit for "finding" a landscape feature, organism, or principal of physics? In the landscape case, over the course of eons those landscape features are meaningless. And if we include paint blobs, strings of words, or better mousetraps in our discovery scope... attributing any "invention" to any of us (instead of all of us) feels weird. I feel fine with "humans made it". Less fine with "that particular person made it, and gets all of the glory and money, even though it would have been impossible to make without a bunch of supporting everythings and also someone else was going to get to it eventually".
Intellectual ownership is indeed super interesting.
If it is the latter, attribution is all that is warranted, but even that will be a bit silly. Does it really matter which particular human gets credit for "finding" a landscape feature, organism, or principal of physics? In the landscape case, over the course of eons those landscape features are meaningless. And if we include paint blobs, strings of words, or better mousetraps in our discovery scope... attributing any "invention" to any of us (instead of all of us) feels weird. I feel fine with "humans made it". Less fine with "that particular person made it, and gets all of the glory and money, even though it would have been impossible to make without a bunch of supporting everythings and also someone else was going to get to it eventually".
Intellectual ownership is indeed super interesting.