sockkpuppett's had to write another post about clip theft in vidding. As always, I'm frustrated on her behalf.

Last week, I was frustrated on my own behalf; dualbunny and several other people contacted me to say that they'd just seen a vid using several memorable clip combinations from one of my vids. (Which always makes me wonder: why on earth would people pick those ( Read more... )

This post started as a comment on unhelpful attitudes about plagiarism, but somehow spiraled outward to include a good deal of my teaching philosophy, my attitudes about religion and faith (not the same), and a short history of my beliefs about human nature.

Consider yourself warned.

Sometime last week, in the wake of the most recent plagiarism ( Read more... )

(Backstory available here.)

compell / Emma has taken the vid down. I know several people wanted to see it, and, I admit, it's fascinating (in a hey-look-train-wreck kind of way).

So I've put it up on my own site, where it will stay for about 24 hours.

Knock yerself out.

And hey, if anybody recognizes the song, let me know.

ETA: I've taken my ( Read more... )

In case you're wildly curious about the continuing saga of the latest plagiarism case . . .

( here's what happened when I found the plagiarist on AIM )

This only works if you've seen "Come On ( Read more... )

In case you've missed out on the latest round of oh-look-more-plagiarism, I refer you to ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about vidding and plagiarism again, and you all should be very pleased about the verb "thinking" -- as opposed to, for example, "ranting" or "swearing."

As most of you will have gathered by now, there's been a bit of a tempest in a teacup about this over in sisabet's LJ. surfal666 had this to say: "Your sampling and splicing is just one ( Read more... )

My feelings about the little dust-ups on-list at nummy treat have gone from vague discomfort to slightly befuddled amusement. If you don't care about such things, you have my hearty congratulations and you won't want to read the cutaway.

( But for the rest of you, I've got some thoughts. )