A question of plagiarism
Where's the line between genuine fusion and outright plagiarism?
Somewhere else than the AO3 Abuse Team estimates it to be, says my gut feeling.
Anyway, judge for yourselves:
The Hobbit/Vorkosigan Saga fusion. The work the fusion is supposedly based on.
No, it's not the same, word for word (although there are identical passages). But it's the same plot, and I don't mean the sweeping, general one. I mean step. For. Step.
I've read "Shards of Honor" more times than I can count; it was the only thing I had to read during an otherwise boring three-week-long vacation with people I had nothing in common with.
Is it a work of fusion when I can foretell the next action by any of the named characters in the fusion work? Because it's. Exactly. The. Same. As. In. The. Original?
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Somewhere else than the AO3 Abuse Team estimates it to be, says my gut feeling.
Anyway, judge for yourselves:
The Hobbit/Vorkosigan Saga fusion. The work the fusion is supposedly based on.
No, it's not the same, word for word (although there are identical passages). But it's the same plot, and I don't mean the sweeping, general one. I mean step. For. Step.
I've read "Shards of Honor" more times than I can count; it was the only thing I had to read during an otherwise boring three-week-long vacation with people I had nothing in common with.
Is it a work of fusion when I can foretell the next action by any of the named characters in the fusion work? Because it's. Exactly. The. Same. As. In. The. Original?
crossposts: http://allaire.dreamwidth.org/227602.html
If you want to comment, please do here at my livejournal until/unless I finalize my move to Dreamwidth one day.