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This 3 page paper argues that new works in which authors plagiarize others on purpose are hack work, not creative endeavors. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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All artists borrow from those who have come before, but such borrowing is not a deliberate act but the result of the fact that people who are working on the
same topic often have similar ideas about it. Such coincidences are not at all unusual and most people overlook them. However, when entire pages or paragraphs appear in other works
"lifted" word for word from the original; or when an author takes another persons idea and uses it as a springboard for a very similar property, plagiarism has undoubtedly taken
place. Typically, when a person is caught plagiarizing, they apologize and make it known that they are using anothers material; lately, plagiarists have claimed that they have invented a new
art form by "intertextualizing" their efforts with the other writers or artists project. An article in The New York Times discusses this phenomenon. The articles author, Randy Kennedy, discusses
a 17-year old German girl, Helene Hegemann, who wrote a novel about the Berlin club scene; she "blended sizeable chunks" of a fellow bloggers work into her novel but when
she was called on it, she responded that "appropriating the passages from that book and other sources was her plan all along" (Kennedy, 2010). Hegemann feels that her medium is
the "remix" and that she is entitled to use "anything at hand she feels suits her purposes, an idea of communal creativity that certainly wasnt shared by those from whom
she borrowed" (Kennedy, 2010). This might seem like nothing more than a quirky statement from a writer whose talent would seem to be in question, except that in the United
States David Shields "highly anticipated book" was about to be published (Kennedy, 2010). Entitled "Reality Hunger," the book is little more than a collection of quotations from others (Kennedy, 2010).
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