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What's missed in these discussions is that plagiarism doesn't just hurt the original author, it also hurts the fans. If you find a work you like, you follow th

by rendaw 4y ago

What's missed in these discussions is that plagiarism doesn't just hurt the original author, it also hurts the fans. If you find a work you like, you follow the author to find more works with similar vision. If the author plagiarized it, you're never going to find those other works. I listen to a lot of Touhou arrangements/remixes. Some of it is barely a cover, some of it is so different you'd be hard pressed to identify what of the original actually remains. But it's clearly labeled, and I've heard the original, and I decided with full knowledge that the new work offered enough new ideas that I wanted to own it independently. Plagiarism is also disrespectful because it reduces the agency of the fan - it decides for them that the new work has sufficient merit and denies them the ability to make that decision themselves.

goto11 4y ago
Comic books at the time where generally anonymous work-for-hire. The publishers like DC deliberately avoided crediting the artists. The original creators of Superman ran multiple lawsuits against DC, but only got a payout in the 1970's because the media attention became too embarrassing. Often the artists didn't even own the original drawings, so the comic publishers could sell the originals as collectors items without the artists warning a penny. So while I don't particularly care for Lichtenstein, I think the comic book industry itself (and indirectly its consumers) is to blame for the anonymity of comic book artist. Creator-owned comics and artist credits only really became mainstream in the 1990's. Interestingly, this is quite different from the European tradition, where artist were well known. No artist would get away with just swiping a panel from Tintin and present it as an original work, since everybody knew Tintin was created by Hergé (although to be fair Hergé himself had uncredited assistants.)

by rendaw 4y ago

goto11 4y ago

Comic books at the time where generally anonymous work-for-hire. The publishers like DC deliberately avoided crediting the artists. The original creators of Superman ran multiple lawsuits against DC, but only got a payout in the 1970's because the media attention became too embarrassing. Often the artists didn't even own the original drawings, so the comic publishers could sell the originals as collectors items without the artists warning a penny. So while I don't particularly care for Lichtenstein, I think the comic book industry itself (and indirectly its consumers) is to blame for the anonymity of comic book artist. Creator-owned comics and artist credits only really became mainstream in the 1990's. Interestingly, this is quite different from the European tradition, where artist were well known. No artist would get away with just swiping a panel from Tintin and present it as an original work, since everybody knew Tintin was created by Hergé (although to be fair Hergé himself had uncredited assistants.)