Interestingly, the criteria still bear no resemblance to the everyday understanding and use of ‘original.’ In law it is used more as a gauge of how much work is to be completed before copyright protection is granted. Some have attacked the legal meaning of ‘originality’ because it sets a very low standard, and consequently, provides protection to undeserving works. Barzun argues that the market has become saturated by such works because of the belief that creativity is within all of our reach