One aspect of the creative industry that has remained the same across generations is the difficulty for artists to incorporate their work into popular culture. Critical Art Ensemble's (CAE) Utopian Plagiarism, Hypertextuality, and Electronic Cultural Production, written in 1991, argues that "The video revolution failed for two reasons: lack of access and absence of desire" (99), while the artists of Documentary Press. Break. Play. highlight how easy access to creative technology is. PPP artists point out that it's much harder for good work to penetrate popular culture because there is so much of it. Comparing the CAE's arguments with the PPP's ideas, it emerges that the irruption of artists into popular culture has always been difficult, but it is difficult today for different reasons than in the past. This is why quality plagiarism is essential in the creative industry. First of all, it is important to understand the meaning of plagiarism. CAE stated that “one of the main goals of plagiarism is to restore the dynamic and unstable drift of meaning by appropriating and recombining fragments of culture.” (86). CAE is defining what makes quality plagiarism here. This definition compares well with their question “what is the point of saving the language when there is nothing left to say?” When they say “there is nothing left to say,” they mean that there are no longer any unexperienced “fragments of culture.” CAE's point here is that there is nothing left that can be done without plagiarizing. PPP artists embrace the fact that plagiarism or “recombination” is necessary to create good art. The similarity between the two works is that the comparison between the two shows...... middle of paper ......en in 1991. Lack of access was an obstacle that made it difficult for artists to succeed. Just as an overindulgence in technology today makes it difficult for an artist to get noticed, a lack of access to technology in the past made it difficult for artists to create work. In both cases, quality plagiarism was essential for works of art to break through into popular culture. One PPP artist said it best when he said "you just can't avoid the limitations, I guess." This statement sums up the constant limitations that artists have faced throughout history in trying to get their work noticed in popular culture. An important way in which artists have had their work noticed has been by collecting different “fragments of culture” and recombining them to create quality art. In other words, plagiarism is the key that allows artists to overcome the constant limitations of the creative industry.