The Universal Declaration of Creative Rights

Because creativity is not a luxury, a gift, or a talent of a few— it’s a right of everyone, everywhere, at all times.

This is the Extended and Explained Version of the Universal Declaration of Creative Rights. A living document that calls for the recognition, practice, and protection of creativity as a fundamental condition of human existence.

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Preamble

Because creativity is an innate quality— as essential as love and as unique as every being who carries it.

Because before we fulfill ourselves through it, we already find it in our origin, and we exist because of it.

Because to stay alive is to create, and to create is to confirm our existence.

Because every cubic centimeter of the Universe is capable of being re-signified—

We proclaim this Universal Declaration of Creative Rights, as a call to ignite, exercise, and promote creativity in every imaginable form— both within ourselves and for those around us.

Rights

1. Every person has the right to create their own identity.

The first creative project in every life is the self. Each person, once they decide, tells the world who they are—never the other way around. The self-defined person is the only true stage where creativity can begin.

2. Every person has the right to create solutions.

There is no more direct way to experience a problem than to have it personally. It is a right to possess the awareness and tools to create one’s own solution— not only to acquire it externally. Creativity is the mother of all skills.

3. Every person has the right to imagine reality differently.

Reality is nothing more than interpretation—“what there is.” There never was, is, or will be a single version of it. This right is one of the most basic: to interpret freely, and from there, to create new versions of reality.

4. Every child has the right to grow in an environment that encourages creativity.

Life begins in childhood—and so does creativity. At this stage, children deserve everything necessary to build their creative palace, one they will inhabit and expand throughout their lives. The decision to make it last forever—not just for a while—is taken here.

5. Every child has the right to have their ideas respected.

A child’s ideas represent them at the exact moment they are shared. To minimize or ignore an idea is to disrespect its creator. A child whose ideas are not respected will grow into an adult without ideas.

6. Every adult has the right to their creative innocence until the end of life.

To deny ourselves, as adults, the play, imagination, and creativity we once allowed as children is to shrink life into mere existence. Age should enhance creativity, not reduce it. The most creative person should be the most mature one.

7. Every idea has the right to be born without immediate practical use.

Ideas—and the minds that host them—develop their own life, maturing in unpredictable ways. Just as we don’t demand apples from a seed, we should allow ideas the time they need to bloom in their best form.

8. Every difference has the right not to be considered an error.

Difference only exists in comparison to the common. Nothing is “inherently different”; it always is in relation to something else. Therefore, nothing can be wrong merely for being different. Error is the rejection of what presents itself as difference.

9. Every creative person has the right not to be called a “genius.”

Tradition burdens creativity by linking it to divine activity— turning it into something scarce, rare, and spectacular. But creativity is abundant and experienced daily by everyone. If, instead of joy, you feel like a genius when you create, you’re limiting yourself.

10. Every person has the right to feel deep ownership of their ideas.

Nothing has ever been, is, or will be more yours than your ideas. Only you could have created them, because creativity is profoundly identitarian. The dignity of having your ideas is one of the best ideas you can have.

11. Every society has the right to rethink tradition.

The value of tradition lies in its function as social cement, not in its immutability. The best alternative to preserved tradition is not the lack of it, but renewed tradition. Tradition is always applied in the present— and it is in the present that it must make sense.

12. Every person has the right to share their ideas.

An idea is conceived in the mind, but it is born when shared. An idea that isn’t shared—whether by will or by circumstance— has the same existence as an event without witnesses. An idea that doesn’t circulate is a universe of possibilities that will never be, and its creator loses a centimeter of being.

13. Every idea has the right to its best use.

Ideas, like people, are often born in places that will not be their lifelong homes. Every idea has the right to migrate, evolve, and become its best version— to experience all possible versions of itself.

14. Every person has the right to be inspired by another.

Inspiration is a current—a touch, direct or indirect, between people. As contact with deeply emotional and expansive knowledge, we all have the right to experience it, just as we have the right to happiness. And as potential sources of inspiration, we have the duty to exercise it.

15. Every person has the right to live in an environment that favors creation and expression.

This is equivalent to saying that every person has the right to be and become themselves. A creative and expressive environment is the basic infrastructure for constructing a virtuous identity. To depress creativity is to depress existence itself.

16. Every society has the right for its members to connect creatively.

Creative connection is what builds the social fabric of collective development. A society without creative circulation ceases to be a system— it becomes a pile of fragments.

17. Every person has the right to know and enjoy as many ideas as possible.

Ideas must be freely accessible. Every person—regardless of origin, condition, or identity— should be able to know them and experience their impact. Each new mind an idea reaches becomes a new idea in motion, spreading through a virtuous cycle of connection.

18. Every person has the right to intelligence, well-being, connection, prosperity (growth), and free play.

These axes represent the fullness of personal realization through creativity— what we at ByBa call Createfillment.