The ability to duplicate data at the touch of a button and without loss makes avant-garde methods that soften the boundaries between original and copy seem obsolete. The ubiquity of various copying techniques confirms that the phenomenon has established itself as an artistic and everyday cultural practice. However, since its modes of operation and logics often remain hidden and increasingly immaterialized, this almost requires an investigation. The edition "originalcopy" explores the question of how the previously valued distinction between original and copy begins to dissolve in the process of copying and how these changes - even outside of digital contexts - are inscribed in artistic production processes. The focus is on the tension between the supposed immateriality of digital technologies and their material forms of manifestation. The issue repaints the dichotomy of original and copy from a post-digital perspective.