The Creativity phenomenon in the focus of social-philosophic research for Postmodern Intellectual Property

Abstract

The article gives a brief analysis of the creativity phenomenon in its understanding as a process, and also as originative mechanism playing a key role in the artworks’ genesis, meaning that creative results later become the objects of intellectual property. Contemporary creative process' specificity is analyzed considering current information realities, and taking into account the postmodern situation. The general conclusion that can be drawn from the stated material follows here: in some areas the culture of our time demonstrates a tendency of movement from the individual creativity to the collective creativity, and nowadays' communication technologies make it possible to co-author for people who may even don't know by sight each other actually. Everything mentioned doesn't mean that the end of Intellectual Property institution is coming. But it indicates quite definitely: the contents of researched social institution have significant expansive and updating potential, and obviously should be reconsidered by Philosophy and Jurisprudence in a proper way.