#saw a youtuber apologize for plagiarism when the plagiarism was just. doing the same topic as other youtubers | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

doctorbluesmanreturns · 10 days ago

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Just so we're all clear:

Plagiarism is taking the exact work of someone else and passing it off as your own.

It is not seeing something you love and choosing to create your own thing partially inspired by it.

Yes there's a line but like. Seeing a show about something and writing your own project also about that thing isn't plagiarism as long as you didn't directly take anything from the inspiration.

#saw a youtuber apologize for plagiarism when the plagiarism was just. doing the same topic as other youtubers #that's not plagiarism! if James Somerton had done his own videos about the exact same topics it wouldn't have been plagiarism!#if internet historian had done his own video on what happened in Cave Story that wouldn't have been plagiarism!#Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny existing does not mean no one is allowed to create cartoon mice and rabbits!#I understand the concern but plagiarism doesn't work like that

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