Link between identity and plagiarism

Abstract

It is no longer possible to ignore the widespread plagiarism of Latin American handicrafts that is carried out in various European and Eastern countries. This puts design at serious risk in the areas that are subject to crude imitation, since patents, not fought for due to ignorance, ignorance or apathy of governments, gradually take away the opportunity for local designers, graphics, industrial, textiles, etc., to be able to claim the formal codes originating in their regions.

This is a niche for research and debate, which should not be ignored, because it is a subject that refers to legitimacy, origins, identity and the culture of peoples as a whole. We have the right and obligation to commit ourselves to the struggle to recover what proudly belongs to us. If we do not do so, we will leave the door open to the impunity and cynicism of those who are only concerned with going to the most important regions of our continent and appropriating what they have not sown or harvested.

When we talk about identity, we tend not to look at what is most important, which is the provenance, the beginning, the root and the source. It is thought that globalization forces us to pretend to an internationalization of "universal" codes that in reality do not exist, when observation should examine what corresponds because it is privative, exclusive and unmistakable. Alternation is in our own environment, let's not reject it and let's work to rescue it.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/interdiinovationscrese-071