in all seriousness - I'll give you the "other side of the coin" hehehe
plagiarism is FAR down in priority on the List O'Sins, for me personally. lol
and I wrote a book and had it plagiarized - so that sucks but life went on about 2 minutes later. hahahaha
however....LOL also for me- I was on a platform that cost me mucho bucks and mucho time and energy... and it was taken down, brick by brick, day by day, from a bunch of plagiarizing scammers who literally raped the platform weekly - making not only the token unstable - but unstable and decreasing. LOL
we fought a very hard battle for a year - and lost. I lost a lot. many people did.
so when I decided to create DreemPort, plagiarism moved up a bit on my priority list LOL
it's still well below murder and underage drinking - but my business is to create a plagiarism free space so that writers can thrive. We don't do it perfectly but we do take it pretty seriously when it happens. cuz if they thrive, and they sneak into the daily pool - (that we have screened) that means its a black mark against our integrity.
Because we supposedly screened and OK'd it.
Which means now people are eyeballing the rest of the pool and thinking... "ummm isn't that THEIR JOB?"
so I guess it's all a matter of context hehehe
plagiarism is bad. but you're not going to death row for it. unless i catch you on my site plagiarizing. and then i'll kill you 😝
p.s. prayed very specifically this morning that Pura would not only have her appetite back - but that something SO tantalizing for her taste buds would awaken that tummy of hers and tempt her. How's that for alliteration. And i HONESTLY prayed those words and smiled. ❤️
James 5:16
You'll have no problem believing this but we already had a sushi date planned tonight. It's Knoxville, sushi means vegetable sushi only but it's still called that. I don't make the rules.
Hold on, did it downplay plagiarism? You don't think I don't think it's serious do you? That was so not my point. In fact quite the opposite. All I'm saying is the energy we (you, me, them) spend on plagiarism should also be considered when little Johnny and his buddies are selling tickets to underwater porn music. It's a bad look. But my point is, nobody cares about that, all they care about is the person who copies the music.
I think comfortable enough to talk amongst strangers about selling panties online to strangers is worse than stealing. But you know what? Not everyone has to agree with me.
A book was stolen?!? I'm so sorry.
Man... I hope the community didn't misunderstand me.
Hey DreemSteem, smooooch! Thank you.
The problem is everything is plagiarism. Well, almost everything. It's almost as insane as alleged digital copyright which is totally misaligned from the original fabrics of copyright laws which started at least by the 1500s (500 years ago) in some ways regarding tangible items and such as opposed to digital items which is a slippery-slope towards an attempt at copyrighting our thoughts on the basis that our brain waves are very similar if not identical to electricity and the things we find inside computers. Elon Musk, The Facebook Metaverse, etc, are like hold my beer with the Brain Net, etc.
i disagree that "everything is plagiarism" lol
concepts may be similar but I'm not talking about people who have similar ideas and write their own thoughts about those concepts.
I'm talking about people who sit on their lazy asses, go look for a post that is already written, copy/paste that post into their own blog, and then get paid for someone else's work.
One is natural, human, and almost unavoidable.
The other is clear theft, and I see it all the time and it pisses me off (as you can tell LOL)
People who are thieves should not profit off of other people's work.
Sometimes, two people can come up with similar things. To what extent can be debated. Sometimes, the one person can accuse the other person of stealing things from the other person. The other may or may not be guilty of purposely stealing. In those types of situations, it becomes a question of whether plagiarism should include pieces that just so happen to be too identical with items that predate the newer items.
In other words, what is identity theft and where and how do people draw the line between how similar something is allowed to be or not be? Who decides what is Fair Use? Who decides what is Parody or of Transformative Effect? On one hand, I can purposely take your words and lie and say they are my words. Most people agree that would be theft.
But what if I were to accidentally say the same words you said? What if I didn't know what you said? What if I had no idea you even existed? In other words, how do we navigate some of these things? Walt Disney stole art and ideas and things probably around the 1930s and/or after that too from his business partner or whatever that guy was and went on to copyright or patent those things. That is my concern. That is usually my go-to example that I like to point at.
I see some things as laziness as you mention. I see people stealing. But at the same time, I am concern with myself for example of accidentally coming up with things that others already came up with. I say, take people to court for theft and such. Take them to trial and also expose them in the court of public opinion. But I would not want to violate the 4th and 5th amendments.