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Great, its Ruined!
Yeratel:
All the best plots get stolen and recycled over and over again. Don't sweat it, unless your particular treatment is close enough to smell like plagiarism.
Cooper:
I just don't want to get sued on my first publication.
blgarver:
--- Quote from: Yeratel on December 31, 2007, 04:39:33 PM ---All the best plots get stolen and recycled over and over again. Don't sweat it, unless your particular treatment is close enough to smell like plagiarism.
--- End quote ---
Yeah, my context is a lot different than Gaiman's. It's just the broad plot that's similar. It kind of bugs me, but oh well.
JamiSings:
I basically got accused of plagerizing a short story I put up on FictionPress told from the POV of Beauty's sisters from Beauty & The Beast. Plagerizing a writer I never heard of and a story I never read.
I just shrugged it off though. Lots of people think the same way.
Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon):
I'm minded of something Neil Gaiman said about originality; I can't remember the exact words, but it was something to the effect of 'don't sweat it if you find a story or an idea that's similar to the one you're working on; the fact that you are writing it and bringing your own unique voice to the telling makes it original.'
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