Re: OT: Massive plagiarism accusation
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 20, 2006, 18:37 |
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>From: Sai Emrys <sai@...>
I can understand how someone might appropriate (v tr) someone's work, as can be
found throughout art, and indeed science. Small pieces inspire or are
incorporated into another work -- notably the vast proportion of fan fiction
consists of other peoples characters and mythology placed into new situations.
Academic work is ubiquitously excerpted within other academic work. Music, and
indeed visual art, incorporates motifs and themes from other work without
blinking. In these cases, proper attribution is usually explicitly given.
I can't imagine any non-pathological reason for this kind of wide-scale
credit-taking, though, nor any possible way she may have thought she could get
away with it. It really boggles my mind.
This is not the place for a discussion of the philosophies of standing on the
shoulders of giants, intellectual property, or what constitutes theft, nor the
psychology underlying this or any other wide-scale, blatant credit-taking. Take
this message simply as notification that I'd be happy to discuss it in some
other forum. Off-list email is welcome, and I may post about it on my blog for
further discussion, at http://darth-spacey.livejournal.com/ -- if you go there,
please ignore the self-indulgent whining about the state of my life and mental
health, and please try not to be offended by my politics ;-)
Note that my ISP webmail forces the Reply-To regardless of my attempts to change it
-- be sure that onlist and offlist messages are addressed properly!
Paul
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