General Complaints/Inquires/Requests Thread - Page 31

I do agree that we see it as injustice to other people who have been abused,humiliated, harassed for plagiarism before..
But they would've been spared from all this had they been given an chance to voice out their reasons...
The thing is people jump to the writer's throat who've plagiarized and they never gave a chance to the writer who've plagiarized before to defend or hear their version.

So how long is this going to continue when the plagiarized author isn't given a chance to speak up?? If people think I'm biased because Gargee is a famous writer, I'll slide with it and say let's implement the same rules to Gargee and let her face the consequence as all those writers who've faced the brunt of plagiarism..

I ain't saying rules should be changed cause its Gargee or anyone for that.. All I'm saying is how long is this rule of the plagiarized writers being abused,humiliated,harassed,name called aren't give one fair chance to explain it out all in open after all the humiliation they must've put up for their deeds shouldn't they be given one chance to speak.

I'm all up for trashing Gargee's thread if that's what majority wants:..Maybe in future or the next writer who intentionally or unintentionally plagiarizes should be given a chance to speak up that's all I'm saying.. Cause sometimes its more than what meets the eye.

Originally posted by: HK90

^^^ I'm not saying tha her thread should be trashed, but i'm just pointing out why this type of treatmeant, i mean why you are giving her time to expplain, when it was not given to other writers??

@Sementi you said maybe it's premature to say that she is copying but i have seen a thread trashed after a prologue and after chapter one, and believe me writer ko chance nahi diya gaiya tha explain karne ka

Originally posted by: Semanti

This is exactly what I'm trying to say.

Just because writers weren't allowed to defend themselves before this, are you saying that they NEVER should be?

Isn't it time to change such an unfair system?

And if it is (and I think it is), why not start here?

@semanti: exactly!! why not fix the rules when given an opportunity?? like I said just cause Gargee is a famous writer in this forum if people are ruling out this equation now, maybe after solving this issue, it can be implemented...

Originally posted by: lazyleaves

@Semanti: Regarding that in incident which you think was an over reation is that that member copied several scenes and not just one!


Another point that I wish to raise is why this dicussion now? Why is she being defended indirectly?


An adaptation requires permission. But an inspiration doesn't. I have neither read Rebecca nor your OS. So I can't comment on it. But after this incident I read the Unwanted Wife fully!


What she has done is a definite case of plagiarism, credit or no credit as the sequence of words and events were the same including the way they were lying down on the bed!


I will relate a recent incident. You can find it if you go a few pages behind. The member had clearly said at the start that she is merely changing names of the characters of the story to her favourite one. In my eyes she was doing a favour to those who love reading fics on that couple by changing names and posting it! Yet her thread was closed because that is plagiarism!


If any changes in rules should happen now, this case cannot fall under it as it happened BEFORE the new rules.


So this case should be handled in the same way as the previous ones. No changes there!

Originally posted by: Semanti

This is exactly what I'm trying to say.

Just because writers weren't allowed to defend themselves before this, are you saying that they NEVER should be?

Isn't it time to change such an unfair system?

And if it is (and I think it is), why not start here?

Originally posted by: lazyleaves

Being inspired from books and movies would mean picking up a theme and not the plot. If I want to write an FF on Barjatia's Hum Saath Saath Hai, I cannot take the same sequence of events but I can keep the characters same and the background theme of family unity. But I cannot use the SAME sequence of events

Originally posted by: Krani

Wait wait, confusion again!

Okay so inspiration would be taking a general theme of something and adding your own twists to things.

Adaptation would be borrowing the concept of a story - like in Parineeta, I had the characters meeting at a young age, hating one another, Khushi being adopted etc - and this is not allowed.

Yes?

#confusedagain

Originally posted by: AngelTeen

What else is adaptation then man?! Any adaptation takes the story and puts it in s context with it being the adaptation author's prerogative if he/she wants to add something new or not. Honestly this being a FF forum I don't see issues with adaptations if they are referenced.

For instance, Omkara is an adaptation of Othello in the Indian context. It takes the SAME story and changes contexts and takes the SAME CHARACTERS and suits them to this new context.

And honestly what does the "same sequence of events" even mean?! You can keep the sequence same, you can change it. Aslong as you have acknowledged its an adaptation which may or not be following the exact storyline of the original in any particular context you have set it in, it shouldn't matter.