culture has always been all about imitating and copying each other unapologetically

the whole "marketplace of ideas" which has led us into "let us charge money for ideas" is as dumb as bricks

"the marketplace of ideas" does not and never meant buying and selling ideas nor intellectual property.

it means if ideas are freely exchanged, the best ideas will win and become ubiquitous and bad ideas will be discarded.

And it doesn't even make sense, as it's the artist or the author, not the editor, who is supposed to "Steal from the best, forget the rest."