http://www.friendsmakeprints.com/2010/03/09/plagiarism/ and you should too... Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:23:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.friendsmakeprints.com/2010/03/09/plagiarism/comment-page-1/#comment-78 Nic Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:24:11 +0000 http://www.friendsmakeprints.com/?p=526#comment-78 Yeah Beth! I definitely credit Aesthetic Apparatus on the featured poster, or else I wouldn't dare write about it! This kind of topic holds numerous opinions so how "guilty" I feel usually depends on the person I'm talking to and their standpoint. Yeah Beth! I definitely credit Aesthetic Apparatus on the featured poster, or else I wouldn’t dare write about it! This kind of topic holds numerous opinions so how “guilty” I feel usually depends on the person I’m talking to and their standpoint.

]]> http://www.friendsmakeprints.com/2010/03/09/plagiarism/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Beth Jameson Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:01:21 +0000 http://www.friendsmakeprints.com/?p=526#comment-76 It's an interesting dilemna. I just heard a piece on NPR's "On the Media" about this yesterday. The idea of plagarism is fairly new, as stories, art, etc. were traditionally passed around, copied, and repeated without permission from the original artist (Shakespeare, Homer...) I think there is a case to be made for artists using pieces of another's work to re-create something new. It then becomes your art with inspiration from another artist's work. However, if the piece somehow claims to be original, or is being used for the same purpose without the majority of it being original, then there is a problem. I suppose I would consider it from the perspective tof "If I saw this somewhere would I question whether it was an original work, or inspired by an original work. AND if it was my work, how would I feel seeing it?" That being said, if you are unsure or feeling slighty guilty, maybe more modifications, or credit to the original artist are in order (on your piece). I hope this makes sense! It’s an interesting dilemna. I just heard a piece on NPR’s “On the Media” about this yesterday. The idea of plagarism is fairly new, as stories, art, etc. were traditionally passed around, copied, and repeated without permission from the original artist (Shakespeare, Homer…) I think there is a case to be made for artists using pieces of another’s work to re-create something new. It then becomes your art with inspiration from another artist’s work. However, if the piece somehow claims to be original, or is being used for the same purpose without the majority of it being original, then there is a problem. I suppose I would consider it from the perspective tof “If I saw this somewhere would I question whether it was an original work, or inspired by an original work. AND if it was my work, how would I feel seeing it?” That being said, if you are unsure or feeling slighty guilty, maybe more modifications, or credit to the original artist are in order (on your piece). I hope this makes sense!

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