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12688855 No.12688855 [Reply] [Original]

How unethical would it be to steal a highly specific metaphor that you thought you'd thought of yourself only to remember that you'd read it somewhere before?

>> No.12688861

>>12688855
unremember that you remembered it from elsewhere.

problem solved.

>> No.12688865

intellectual property is the biggest spook of all ESPECIALLY for artists

>> No.12689130
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12689130

>>12688855
Just deny it if brought up

>> No.12689131

>>12688855
Acknowledge it, and it’s ethical. Keep it a secret, and you’re fooling yourself.

>> No.12689173

>>12688855
Not at all unethical. Shakespeare stole entire plots. Tolkien stole Gandalf and Shadowfax and many other things.

The idea of owning intellectual property as an author is little more than 300 years old. No one should respect it besides avoiding its most obvious punishments. If you are an artist, no one will ever know that you stole anything.

>> No.12689222

>>12688855
If you get caught just say you thought everybody would know where it came from and that it's an homage.

>> No.12689226

it's not like anyone's gonna read what you write anyway

>> No.12689253

It's easier to apologize than to ask permission.

>> No.12689316

>>12688855
There's always someone somewhere with a big nose who knows and trips you up and laughs when you fall

>> No.12689348

Despite what bullies will tell you, you can't own an idea. You can't own a form from the platonic realm.

>> No.12689365

>>12689222
trips of truth
it's your idea until you get caught, in which case it was homage or a reference that the reader was supposed to understand in the first place, how dare you accuse me of plagiarism simply because your infantile peabrain couldn't recognize the reference??

>> No.12689608

You can't steal a metaphor.

>> No.12689843

>>12689173
Gandalf? Elaborate pls

>>12689348
but does Plato own the concept of Platonic Forms? And anyone else who refers to them needs to give Plato credit and mention his name?