Plagiarism in the arts - who owns knowledge?
When discussing the arts in ToK there are two challenging questions: what is knowledge in the arts? Whose knowledge is it? If we accept that an artist needs a certain kind of knowledge to produce an artwork. But then the resulting artwork reflects this knowledge and belongs to the creator in some sense. We could even argue that the artwork 'embodies' this knowledge. But what happens if two artists come up with very...