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- levitron, on 03/25/2009, -1/+41I loved the comment by Asimov:
As a matter of fact, we authors in SF are more or less friends; we inhabit a small, specialized world in which we are comfortable, and the general feeling is that ideas are common property: if one SF writer thinks up something which is very useful, another may put it into his own words and use it freely. Nobody in SF is going to accuse any other person in SF of using his ideas; in fact, we borrow so generously that there's no way of telling whose idea it was originally. For instance, in my novel The Caves Of Steel, it was very important to the plot to have moving sidewalks, with an elaborate system of side strips that enabled you to work up to the speed of the sidewalks or to work down to the surrounding, motionless medium. This had already appeared some years before in Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll." Well, I borrowed it without any worry at all. I'm sure that Heinlein in reading my novel would have recognized his system, but who knows where he got it from? He never said anything. It'd be different if I used the details of his plot and worked up a story that was so like his that nobody could fail to see it - that's plagiarism. But just to use the idea and build your own plot or story about it - why, we do that all the time. And they do it from me, too - you know, they use the three laws of robotics - and they're welcome. I have no objection.
One of my favourite authors of all time. - malanic, on 03/25/2009, -0/+30Gaimen doesn't seem to agree with you;
"Similarities led the British tabloid paper the Daily Mirror to claim Gaiman had made accusations of plagiarism against Rowling, which he went on the record denying, saying the similarities were either coincidence, or drawn from the same fantasy archetypes. "I thought we were both just stealing from T.H. White", he said in an interview, "very straightforward."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_influenc ... - hobogeneral, on 03/25/2009, -0/+13the future is gonna suck and involve robots. everyone knows that. it's science. it's inevitable.
- inactive, on 03/25/2009, -1/+11"we better not say 'photon torpedoes' those star trek guys might get pissed off. i know! lets call them 'proton torpedoes'"
- petebot, on 03/25/2009, -0/+9Wait a second, a book that features a magical protagonist with brown hair and glasses is a ripoff? Lame.
- AndrewDB, on 03/25/2009, -2/+10Christopher Paolini ripped off more than Star Wars, and he should of written those books in the first place. The only reason he got those bricks of ***** published was because his parents were / or knew the publishers and paid /bribed them.
I can't remember what he ripped off, but I know that L. Ron Hubbard ripped something off for the founding books on the basis of scientology, but I can't remember what the name of the book was. :( - Rudegar, on 03/25/2009, -0/+8don't judge a book by it's cover
- allisonaxe, on 03/25/2009, -0/+6so is every bespectacled dark-haired schoolboy archetype a ripoff of hairy potter, or is it the other way around? I actually know people that look like that. just because a character looks similar to another character, doesn't mean its plagiarism. there's only so many kinds of characters you can create anymore.
- lelebelle, on 03/25/2009, -0/+5“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” - Oscar Wilde
- nate007, on 03/25/2009, -1/+6The Island was better than Parts IMHO.
- egoideal, on 03/25/2009, -1/+5Since when are Dracula and Highlander science fiction?
- ntopaz, on 03/25/2009, -4/+8What about Scientology?
- allisonaxe, on 03/25/2009, -0/+4I was always partial to "luminescent particle projectiles" myself.
- Forsakenmantra, on 03/25/2009, -0/+3I never saw the Island buuuut I saw Parts through the MST3k episode...which was awesome.
- sandman979, on 03/25/2009, -0/+3The similitudes go beyond cover trust me. If you read Books of Magic you will know.
- gaqua, on 03/25/2009, -1/+4I guess they're more fantasy than science fiction since there's no technology involved.
- TheKillDoctor, on 03/25/2009, -0/+3Then there's rip offs for game developers. Halo is a direct rip off of Larry Niven's Ring World series of books. No credit was ever given as far as I can tell. When Niven was asked about it he wasn't concerned and said it wasn't worth pursuing.
- toxicityj, on 03/25/2009, -1/+4I better not learn magic or i'll be a living ripoff :(
- PDAIsAOk, on 03/25/2009, -0/+3MST3K ripping Parts is better than The Island IMHO
- falstaff, on 03/25/2009, -0/+3No good. Even fiction has to have at least a small bit of believability.
- charliejane, on 03/25/2009, -1/+3That's simply not true. In almost every case, I explain how the case turned out. In one or two instances, there's no info available at all, and I searched everywhere. I spent hours googling to find the outcomes of all these cases.
- inactive, on 03/25/2009, -0/+2yeah I think science fiction writers should sue Apple and other patent holders because the clearly came up with the ideas way before these people patented their *****..
- hamobu, on 03/25/2009, -1/+3I would go so far as to say that fan fiction should be OK as long as you are not stealing the story and it is understood that you are not related to the original creator of story universe (eg. Star trek universe or Star wars universe)
- protogenxl, on 03/25/2009, -2/+4Hey guys I saw this great japanese OVA called Macross Plus. Let's dump 80% of the story add Jamie Fox and some T&A and call it Stealth.
- AndrewDB, on 03/25/2009, -0/+2+Should of never have
Yay for forgetting words and having bad grammar because your fraking tired! - sandman979, on 03/25/2009, -0/+2You're right, scientology is a ripoff of this other guy: http://www.scientologie.org/english.htm
- wonderbriefs, on 03/25/2009, -0/+2Exactly. Sharing rough ideas is great. If someone uses some of your ideas, that just proves how influential your work is. Influence is much more powerful than property.
- LogicBomB, on 03/25/2009, -0/+2I liked it :/
- wonderbriefs, on 03/25/2009, -0/+2My dad still goes on and on about cell phones being inspired by Star Trek.
- RobotKeaton, on 03/25/2009, -0/+1Second from the top, left side looks like Steven King.
- Frostek, on 03/26/2009, -0/+1You kids using your electric Google for everything!
You couldn't pick up the phone - you couldn't write?! - JoeParanoid, on 03/25/2009, -0/+1Parts was so bad, it was bad by MST standards. I'm amazed that it spawned a big budget remake.
- Forsakenmantra, on 03/25/2009, -3/+4The Island was a terrible movie though.
- wonderbriefs, on 03/25/2009, -0/+1God damn it. It still drives me nuts not knowing how the three sea shells work. Just like the unanswered riddle from Alice in Wonderland: "How is a raven like a writing desk?"
- inactive, on 03/26/2009, -0/+1back 2 the future had an alternate evil future,
bill and ted's adventure the 2nd had them dying,
fifth element had elements of people trying to take over the world,
firefly is all about orwellian big brother. - toxicityj, on 03/25/2009, -1/+2or profiting from it without the proper authorization and royalties.
- anexanhume, on 03/25/2009, -0/+1Demolition Man. Who wouldn't be happy about the three sea shells?
- HanSolo69, on 03/25/2009, -1/+2This is horribly written. Just about every item ends with "But I didn't bother to find out how it ended."
- kyravon, on 03/27/2009, -0/+1The Matrix has always seemed to me a ripoff of the Tom Baker Dr. Who episode where he has to go into a "machine" to fight the Master in a virtual world!
but I could believe they ripped off multiple sources...
they obviously watched a TON of Hong Kong action films just before making it! - Frostek, on 03/26/2009, -0/+1And DS9 was a rip-off of Babylon 5, albeit a terrible one...
- 16x9, on 03/25/2009, -2/+3The two flicks are so identical that I always assumed The Island was a remake of Parts: The Clonus Horror rather than some kind of rip-off. Both are pretty bad movies.
- Kestrel, on 03/25/2009, -0/+1It happens all the time... there are very few truly new and unique ideas.
Babylon 5 was a rip-off of Lord Of The Rings - Remelox, on 03/26/2009, -0/+1More likely he would have just said, "Well, that's not my "I, Robot", that is still to be made." and let it go.
- Remelox, on 03/26/2009, -0/+1Tell your dad that communicators were more like walkie-talkies and that cell phones were inspired by businessmen wanting to get rich by being constantly able to communicate with other businessmen.
- petebot, on 03/25/2009, -1/+2Back to the Future part 2?
Bill and Ted's excellent adventure?
Fifth Element?
Firefly - Yage2006, on 03/26/2009, -1/+1Well actually allot of those are fantasy/horror not scifi at all.
Secondly they could have come up with a much better list then that.
/Buried - lostinfiction, on 07/25/2009, -0/+0true that a lot of ideas may seem stolen or ripped off, but a lot is also inspired from people's influences - could be subtle or subconscious, but it still exists. for example, look at Douglas Adams' influences: http://www.infloox.com/person?id=1702b7c - he draws from a wide variety of places. Sometimes it might be so obscure that we don't even realise it's ripped off or "borrowed"
- bmcnally, on 03/26/2009, -1/+1You still got it wrong.
"Should of" != "should have" -
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