Random Sampling might work well for actuaries and statisticians but have always spelt doom for writers ( or copy writers shall we say?) . The Kaavya Viswanathan fiasco is a bright example of how plagiarism is viewed differently across faculties of art. Her claim to fame was thru her maiden book “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life" has apparently borrowed lines from author Megan McCafferty and from some others whose work she was very fond of as a child!
The Music and Movie Industry has alwways been rife with affront as well as soft version of copies/samplings from here and there that are easily passed of as "Inspiration". However while the audience of such samplers enjoy the results of outright lifting, the same audience shuns and ridicules a possibly budding writer.
While I have never read Kaavya's “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life", I have thought about writing " How Kaavya got Hitched, Sissed and Got no life", and I would not forget to print this warning on the cover: " Any Similarity in thoughts or words with any person/book would be purely unintentional or coincidental" in finer print and spare the rods!
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The Music and Movie Industry has alwways been rife with affront as well as soft version of copies/samplings from here and there that are easily passed of as "Inspiration". However while the audience of such samplers enjoy the results of outright lifting, the same audience shuns and ridicules a possibly budding writer.
While I have never read Kaavya's “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life", I have thought about writing " How Kaavya got Hitched, Sissed and Got no life", and I would not forget to print this warning on the cover: " Any Similarity in thoughts or words with any person/book would be purely unintentional or coincidental" in finer print and spare the rods!
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5 comments:
Helios.. !!!!!
Like that old boozer in BIG DADDY.. (like i'm not busy??)
arag
If you are into Plagiarism and love to find instances of copying, I suggest this website. Be sure to turn on your speakers.
Plagiarism is my area of dissertation. That's one thing I love to yap about and all.
we all know the circulating joke--If you take from one source,it is copying:at the same time,if your copying is from more than one source,your action is "research" eligible for Ph.D. Almost all Ph.Ds will support this in their heart of heart.
Lata has given wonderful songs. In the name of `re-mix`the same song is sung by someone with better background music(which was not availabe when the song was originally sung). Lata fans purchase the re-mix also !
Goods manufactured cheap in one country is purchased by a rogue country, just re-labeled and exported as if manufactured by the rogue country to get international acclaim for best manufacture !
What is told in Ramayana & Mahabharat,taken and mixed in different proportion, is given in upanyas and,they get the title of Swamiji.
In the light of the foregoing, Kaavya's book cannot altogether be faulted.
GANDALF
gollum: "Plagiarism is my area of dissertation"..
No wonder ju wanna do a PhD!
Agree with Gandalf, esp. in the "copying from multiple sources is research" part. Seriously speaking, I remember reading that MIT was in the process of developing a software to find cases of copying in research papers. Never knew what happened to that!
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