On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 09:33:14 -0700, Miguel Roig wrote:
In the arts things get a little tricky. I've heard about plagiarism of
composition (art, photography) plagiarism of theatrical designs
and sets, of product designs, etc. As an example, I use this video
in one of my presentations on plagiarism to raise the question:
Yes, we know it when we see it, but at what point does being
inspired by a work represents crosses the line into plagiarism?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9-FGtYACzI
Did Michael Jackson plagiarize his dance moves?
I agree that the arts are a trickier business and I am content to leave
those issues regarding plagiarism to copyright lawyers. ;-) The
problem with the arts is that large amounts of money can be involved
and the claims for "priority" become more of a money grab.
Consider Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and Clifford Harris Jr,'s
"Song of the Summer" (tm, Stephen Colbert ;-) "Blurred Lines".
Both Marvin Gaye's family and Bridgeport Music which owns
the rights to the Funkadelic's song "Sexy Ways" are going to sue Thicke
because he and his co-writers copied their compositions. See:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/robin-thicke-sues-protect-blurred-607492
NOTE: see Funkadelic front man George Clinton's comments at the end.
and
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/marvin-gaye-son-implies-robin-thicke-ace-lawsuit-article-1.1433640
I don't know who is right in this situation but if one is caught up in
this kind of sh*tstorm, I'd follow Warren Zevon's advice:
Bring lawyers, guns, and money.
And this doesn't even involve "sampling" which is a bigger headache;
see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_%28music%29
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
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On Friday, August 23, 2013 12:10:56 PM, Mike Palij scribbled in crayon:
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 06:35:00 -0700, Christopher Green wrote:
However, it turns out to have been stolen. Oops.
http://gawker.com/georgia-tech-students-epic-welcome-speech-was-epical-1184716361
Okay, maybe I'm a little more dense today than usual, maybe
I need to up my medication (or reduce it), or maybe I should
just have another cup of coffee but can someone explain to me
in what sense the presentation below is plagiarism of the presentation
above? In order to establish a common framework for discussion,
let use the following definition from the Indiana University,
Bloomington's
School of Education page on plagiarism:
|3. Plagiarism.
|
|Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else's work, including
|the work of other students, as one's own. Any ideas or materials
|taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully
|acknowledged, unless the information is common knowledge. What
|is considered "common knowledge" may differ from course to course.
|
|a. A student must not adopt or reproduce ideas, opinions, theories,
|formulas, graphics, or pictures of another person without
acknowledgment.
|
|b. A student must give credit to the originality of others and
acknowledge
|an indebtedness whenever:
|
|1. Directly quoting another person's actual words, whether oral or
|written;
|
|2. Using another person's ideas, opinions, or theories;
|
|3. Paraphrasing the words, ideas, opinions, or theories of others,
|whether oral or written;
|
|4. Borrowing facts, statistics, or illustrative material; or
|
|5. Offering materials assembled or collected by others in the form of
|projects or collections without acknowledgment.
Now, both presentation involved topics about science fiction, both
used Strauss' "Thus Sprach Zarathrustra", and both were oriented
toward a young audience that was familiar with the references being
made in the presentation but where did the second presentation:
(a) Directly quote the first presentation?
(b) Use the ideas, opinions, or theories of the first presentation?
(c) Paraphrase the words, ideas, opinion, or theories of the first
presentation?
(d) Borrow facts, statistics, or illustrative material (NOTE: both
presentations involve science fiction but the second presentation
does not use the same examples used in the first presentation)?
(e) Offer materials assembled or collected in the first presentation?
Stylistically, they are similar but not identical. So, in what sense
does the second presentation plagiarize the first presentation?
After that, one could try to show how Tarantino's "Kill Bill" movies
plagiarize a lot of movies, ranging from Francois Truffaut's
"The Bride Wore Black" to the Stephen Segall "Hard to Kill".
For a more or less complete list of movies referenced in KB see:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266697/movieconnections
Is Kill Bill 1 & 2 plagiarism? Quentin Tarantino is listed as the writer
and director and no one else. Or is this simply an "homage"?
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
On 2013-08-23, at 8:46 AM, Paul C Bernhardt <pcbernha...@frostburg.edu>
wrote:
Here is something that I think is a ton of fun, some of you have
probably
seen it. That I am a proud alumni of Georgia Tech has absolutely
nothing
(that is, everything) to do with my sharing it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0tN58EC6LE
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