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Through twenty-one conversations with artists, designers, publishers, and cultural practitioners, Ben Schwartz examines how copying, appropriation, homage, and remixing have become powerful tools for questioning authorship, ownership, and originality. Covering everything from underground publishing and DIY culture to fashion, graphic design, and independent publishing, the book offers a fascinating look at the ways creative work is continually shaped by influence, repetition, and reinvention. 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