Editorial: Patience and the Possibilities of Collaborative and Derivative Expression

Editorial: Patience and the Possibilities of Collaborative and Derivative Expression

Andrew Updegrove, Partner, Gesmer Updegrove LLP

6/09/2008
(Original Publish Date: 5/1/2008)

Human cultures have deep roots, put down across millennia of shared experience. Over time, societies develop detailed systems of law, morality and social conduct to protect those cultures, and these frameworks properly adapt only gradually over time. In some cases, changes are enacted self-consciously (as with law), while in others they occur organically (as with evolving norms of social conduct), but in neither case are they apt to morph abruptly.