Q 2. Price investigates how difficult and how ambiguous plagiarism can be, and she suggests considering the rule tentative and situational. Do you have any experience of yourself or having students confused about what you have to/don't have to quote and whether a particular idea is appropriately used? How does the experience contribute to the discourse of plagiarism?
Monday, July 9, 2018
Chiyon Yu - questions for 10 July
Q 1. Lessing contends how copyright laws are restricting artistic creation and how the law cannot be applied to a collaborative work of art. As a counterexample, he describes how Creative Commons works and how artists freely use each other’s work. What do you think is a way of balancing between financial reward for one’s work and promoting collaborative and creative work of artists?
Q 2. Price investigates how difficult and how ambiguous plagiarism can be, and she suggests considering the rule tentative and situational. Do you have any experience of yourself or having students confused about what you have to/don't have to quote and whether a particular idea is appropriately used? How does the experience contribute to the discourse of plagiarism?
Q 2. Price investigates how difficult and how ambiguous plagiarism can be, and she suggests considering the rule tentative and situational. Do you have any experience of yourself or having students confused about what you have to/don't have to quote and whether a particular idea is appropriately used? How does the experience contribute to the discourse of plagiarism?
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Yon, I have had an experience where a student wanted to base a story on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but with characters of color. And of course, set in modern day America. I was as confused as the student, because I didn't want it to be seen as a rip-off and since they were going to perform it, I didn't want someone else to accuse the student of plagiarism. So, the student ended up writing something else. Something they didn't enjoy at all.
ReplyDeleteHi Yon,
ReplyDeleteI'm not really sure if there is a stable balance that could be reached between that of financial award and proliferation of collaboration. I think that artists who are more focused on financial award fail to see the benefit of sharing their work and watching those who remix it appreciate and create something new. There is a saying that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and I think that this is still true in artistic settings where remixing does occur. I think the balance should embrace this, and allow for a collection of royalties on the original creation. However, there should be an encouragement of free circulation of a texts networking journey across culture. Greed in our society makes this balance difficult to reach, which unfortunately results in an individual by individual case evaluation.