Wednesday 8 July 2009

Anti-plagiarism Day

Friday July 17th is Anti-Plagiarism Day. It's not very official, since the date has just been hijacked for that purpose by the quite interesting How Publishing Really Works blog. However, it's quite an inspiring theme for a day to have, and the blog has put out a call for anyone interested in the topic to write about it on that date and raise awareness. You can either write a post about it on your own blog/facebook/twitter, or submit your thoughts to “hprw at tesco dot net”, with a subject line of “HPRW anti-plagiarism day”, and it will be posted on the HPRW blog. I think the line at which creative writing can be considered to be plagiarism can be a difficult one to find - who's to say what's simply drawn inspiration from something else and what's ripping it off. I'm going to have a think about the topic and hopefully I'll have something constructive to post on July 17th. It looks like there will be a lot of good things said about the topic, if the comments on the original blog post are anything to go by.
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4 comments:

  1. Unknown8 July 2009 at 21:09

    interesting topic! especially as recently that was that whole case about the sequel to Catcher in the Rye written by that guy who said he loved the book and was inspired but J D Sallinger (is that who wrote it?) sued because it was just ripping off his idea. i can kind of see it especially if you have written something you want to be left stand alone. which in this case he did it seems. anyway lots of love xx

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  2. WillowAllTogether8 July 2009 at 23:04

    I can't believe that 'JD California' thinks it's OK to write the sequel of somebody else's book without their consent. I don't think it's ever OK, I don't even really agree with novels like Wide Sargasso Sea. There's something instinctively wrong about it, you're using someone else's ideas, the product of their mind.

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  3. Just Lianne10 July 2009 at 17:13

    Thanks for bringing this to (my? our?) attention, i think i'll have a think about this too. on a personal note, i have to proofread most of today and then off to london but itching to write for the blog soon.x

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  4. Unknown14 July 2009 at 18:51

    yeah sorry that's what i was trying to get at i think but didn't express myself very well. you certainly wouldn't publish it without checking with the original author! shocking!! xx

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