Dr. Jonas Miller: [explaining what his own version of Dorothy can do when Bill uppercuts him in the face] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Bill: You son of a bitch. What’d you think, I wouldn’t find out? [grabs Jonas by his shirt and begins to fight] Dr. Jonas Miller: What is the matter with you? Bill: You…
— Michael Crichton, Anne-Marie Martin, Bill Harding, Bill Paxton, imdb.com
Tallahassee: I’m not great at farewells, so, uh, that’ll do, pig. Columbus: That’s the worst goodbye I’ve ever heard, and you stole it from a movie.
— Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Tallahassee, Woody Harrelson, imdb.com
This is Barstool. All the time. Every day of the week, the company exists to sic a mob of hateful frogs on anyone who doesn’t buy a cheap Goodell clown shirt.
The telling saga speaks volumes about platforms like Twitter handle copyright claims, especially in a culture where stealing content and profiting off others’ work has become widely accepted practice among social media managers and marketers.
It hasn’t been a perfect system, but I do feel it was a significant improvement, as many of my peers have approached these issues in the same way.
If you feel tempted to plagiarize, ask yourself why you feel so compelled to borrow in the first place.
What goes on in the mind of someone who takes from another person’s work and attempts to pass it off as their own?
I was completely aware that I’d stolen from a person who had created something. I was paranoid that it would come back to haunt me and there was a hot minute when the internet exploded and everything was digitized when I worried I’d get caught. The shame stopped me from doing it again.
What would compel someone — even a young, naïve, evidently troubled poet — not just to commit a blatant act of plagiarism, but to tattoo someone else’s poetry on her skin and try to pass it off as her own, on the internet of all places, rendering her humiliating exposure and downfall all but inevita…
Ghost ain't never had a good idea he didn't steal from you.
— Randy Huggins, Courtney A. Kemp, Tommy Egan, Joseph Sikora, imdb.com
About five years ago, somebody showed me some web sites that had my material all over them, and I thought that was fascinating. One reason was, I'd never seen my jokes written one right after another like that. I write on drawing paper—I don't even like lines on the paper—so I have notebooks all ove…
Nobody owns comedy. Nobody owns a premise. Nobody owns an idea.
The job is to do something interesting with ideas, and if it is copied I couldn’t care less.
It's beautiful. We should steal this song.
— MGMT, youtube.com
Elaine, these ideas are all in the air. They're in the air.
CALVIN KLEIN? No, no. That's my idea. They, they stole my idea. You see I had the idea of a cologne that makes you smell like you just came from the beach.
In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?
I came up with a new word yesterday: Plagiarism
— Mayor, twitter.com
No one wants to state the obvious because it involves making fun of both Melania and Michelle, but the fact is: It’s impossible to ‘plagiarize’ meaningless twaddle.
Always trust yourself, think for yourself, act for yourself, speak for yourself. Be yourself!