TL
R, but from skipping from the middlish to the end for the conclusion, I disagree; it is plagiarism and just as bad as it ever was, but in the age of easily downloaded music & video that makes all but the most straightlaced a casual criminal (Ever downloaded a song to see if you liked it before buying the album? BAD! NO COOKIE! THE FBI IS ON THEIR WAY! YES, EVEN IF YOU DELETED IT LATER! You criminal.) people just don't care as much if they're "committing intellectual crimes" any more, and the "stick it to The Man/information wants to be free" counterculture mythology just encourages it further. Then too, the fairly sharp divide between bands who make most of their money from touring and either don't get in a twist or actively distribute their music online as a form of promotion versus the ones who have a wall of gold and platinum records and are ferociously against it just makes the "intellectual property is real property and copying it without compensation is just as wrong as stealing via electronic funds transfer" look like nothing but greedy self-interest. To avoid a TLR of my own, I'll just say this:
The adage that there's nothing new under the sun is itself at least a century old, but we've still managed to find ways to frame the same old ideas in ways that are if not new, at least chopped finely and stirred into a stew with a flavor all its own. To say that such efforts are uneccessary and that simply pulling a potato from this garden, some carrots from that window box, an ear of corn off the truck out front, and a chicken thigh from the freezer, then throwing them in a bowl without bothering to make the detailed preparations and add a twist of your own seasoning, will produce a result of equivalent quality and impact is so obviously wrong to me that even this metaphor fails to fully describe my reaction to the idea as applied to writing.
- CD, writes fanfic but doesn't presume to claim that it's good for anything but the amusement value
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
R, but from skipping from the middlish to the end for the conclusion, I disagree; it is plagiarism and just as bad as it ever was, but in the age of easily downloaded music & video that makes all but the most straightlaced a casual criminal (Ever downloaded a song to see if you liked it before buying the album? BAD! NO COOKIE! THE FBI IS ON THEIR WAY! YES, EVEN IF YOU DELETED IT LATER! You criminal.) people just don't care as much if they're "committing intellectual crimes" any more, and the "stick it to The Man/information wants to be free" counterculture mythology just encourages it further. Then too, the fairly sharp divide between bands who make most of their money from touring and either don't get in a twist or actively distribute their music online as a form of promotion versus the ones who have a wall of gold and platinum records and are ferociously against it just makes the "intellectual property is real property and copying it without compensation is just as wrong as stealing via electronic funds transfer" look like nothing but greedy self-interest. To avoid a TLR of my own, I'll just say this: The adage that there's nothing new under the sun is itself at least a century old, but we've still managed to find ways to frame the same old ideas in ways that are if not new, at least chopped finely and stirred into a stew with a flavor all its own. To say that such efforts are uneccessary and that simply pulling a potato from this garden, some carrots from that window box, an ear of corn off the truck out front, and a chicken thigh from the freezer, then throwing them in a bowl without bothering to make the detailed preparations and add a twist of your own seasoning, will produce a result of equivalent quality and impact is so obviously wrong to me that even this metaphor fails to fully describe my reaction to the idea as applied to writing.
- CD, writes fanfic but doesn't presume to claim that it's good for anything but the amusement value
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows