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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 17:16:17 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mike Stanley writes:
> Sproaticus <jsproat@io.com> wrote:
> > [...] 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?
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, they'll get even more of a show.
> 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.
There's obviously a certain level of maturity that needs to be exercised here.
We could just as easily start arguing "out of the 102,981,500 ways six bricks
can be fitted together, these four ways are mine since I found them." Getting
back to the guitar example, say I got those piece arrangements from Tom,
whether or not he copied them from someone else. That's the extent of my
responsibility, to give Tom credit for the idea.
What if it's later revealed that Tom got the idea of the guitar by seeing such
an instrument in real life? (1) I'd change my credit for it then, assuming I
wanted to change it at all.
Cheers,
- jsproat
1. Personally, I think it's just the result of a spamcake-induced
hallucination.
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 22-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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