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<blockquote data-quote="Browncoat" data-source="post: 34064" data-attributes="member: 1061">Plagiarism is a touchy subject.&nbsp; Outright forgery and theft aside, it's difficult to determine what the original author's &quot;thoughts, ideas, and expressions&quot; were when he/she created something.&nbsp; What is truly original anyway?&nbsp; Don't we all imitate what we see and know?&nbsp; Don't we all learn by copying others and eventually branch out as we grow creatively?I see your point.&nbsp; We don't lock up the high school art student who copies the Mona Lisa to enter the local art show.&nbsp; Andy Warhol receives accolades for copying a Campbell's soup can and doing funky colored prints of famous people...yet Bob Dylan is on the receiving end of my ire for copying photographs.Where I draw the line is intent.&nbsp; The high school art student does not try to pawn off his Mona Lisa as an original work.&nbsp; Andy Warhol's pop culture art was the personification of art imitating life.&nbsp; But Bob Dylan's gallery is doing something else.&nbsp; He is taking the experiences of others and calling them his own.&nbsp; He's robbing those photographers and the uniqueness of what THEY saw and captured.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Browncoat, post: 34064, member: 1061"] Plagiarism is a touchy subject. Outright forgery and theft aside, it's difficult to determine what the original author's "thoughts, ideas, and expressions" were when he/she created something. What is truly original anyway? Don't we all imitate what we see and know? Don't we all learn by copying others and eventually branch out as we grow creatively? I see your point. We don't lock up the high school art student who copies the Mona Lisa to enter the local art show. Andy Warhol receives accolades for copying a Campbell's soup can and doing funky colored prints of famous people...yet Bob Dylan is on the receiving end of my ire for copying photographs. Where I draw the line is intent. The high school art student does not try to pawn off his Mona Lisa as an original work. Andy Warhol's pop culture art was the personification of art imitating life. But Bob Dylan's gallery is doing something else. He is taking the experiences of others and calling them his own. He's robbing those photographers and the uniqueness of what THEY saw and captured. [/QUOTE]

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