[ SECRET POST #4399 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4399 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Cassandra Clare & her books: TMI/TID/TDA]


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[Doctor Who]


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[Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir]


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[Charmed]


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[Criminal Minds - season 4, episode 8 "Masterpiece"]


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[Tidying Up with Marie Kondo]











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Comments

[rosehiptea]

Off-topic, but last year I wrote a fanfic that featured a very specific scenario, then two weeks later I read a mystery novel with the same very specific scenario. I hadn't read the book. The author of the book couldn't have read my fanfic because it didn't exist at the time she was writing the book. (Not that I would really think a big name author had to go to my fanfic for inspiration.) It was very weird. I keep thinking that maybe I read some preview of the beginning of the book and forgot I did it but I think it was just a weird coincidence. Anyway my point is that after that it's a little harder to convince me that something is plagiarized, especially something like "dark hunters" which doesn't even sound that original. But you're right, I'd have to read them both to know for sure.

[tabaqui]

Exactly. The scenarios and tropes and underlying story structures of so *many* books and movies and fics are so similar, unless you have word for word lines and plot point by plot point arcs, it's hard to definitively say something has been plagiarized.

[(Anonymous)]

Normally I would agree with you, but in a case where the person in question has already been proven to have plagiarized other things... yeah, it's pretty suspicious.

[tabaqui]

I dunno. A) it's been going on (the lawsuit) for over two years and now seems to have been mostly dropped. And b) when you have editors and whatnot, it's a lot more difficult to do that then when you're just someone copy/past/finnd/replace-ing at home.