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Re: An aside on the "Plagiarism" thread...
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 22 Aug 1999 14:44:09 GMT
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[cjc@newsguy.com]ihatespam[]
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Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:
> There has to be a line somewhere between a novel way of putting two pieces
> together, and an inspired design no one else may come up with on their own,
> right? A few cases of the latter from within our gang come to mind -- Karim
> Nassar's hand using minifig legs, Tom McDonald's guitars using the grille
> tile, etc. Other modellers should be careful using these kinds of
> arrangements without plagiarizing them, IMO.
So if I want to have a bard holding a lute or other stringed
instrument I should find another way of doing it instead of going with
the awesome method Tom created?
Or are you saying if I do use Tom's method I should note it? I can
see the sense in that, and I can also see it getting quickly out of
hand, or causing someone who thinks I copied their method of doing
something getting pretty ticked if they see Tom getting credit for his
without them getting credit for their idea.
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| (...) The latter. If you use his method, you *should* note it. However, we're our own enforcement here, so if you don't want to give credit, you don't *have* to. It'd just be more polite to Tom; and once the audience checks out what else Tom made, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Webster's is less than helpful on this word, so I went to www.dictionary.com: plagiarism n 1: a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work 2: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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