On Monday 25 Aug 2008 9:36:40 am Madhu Menon wrote:
> but a friend in advertising tells me
> she's seen one element of it used by somebody else, but she can't
> remember exactly where. I don't want to be seen as a copycat, and I also
> don't want to waste the designer's time developing a concept that looks
> very similar to someone else.
As an aside, it appears to me that Kavya (or was it Kaavya)
Viswanathan's "plagiarism" event was a sort of watershed - at least if you
talk to my brother. He is a Prof in the US and consequently is in the
business of writing stuff that is not supposed to have been plagiarized.
He observes that (in his opinion) every person learns language by imitation.
Every person's vocabulary and style of writing tend to get "picked up" by
some influence or other ad there Is always a small element of someone else
("plagiarism?") in what one writes. And, he says that papers are now being
run through a program that compares the language and sentence structure with
that of a huge database of papers to check for similarities that might
suggest plagiarism. And in doing that there is a very real risk that the
accusation of plagiarism can be levelled against a perfectly original piece.
But then again - hasn't this list discussed IPR views and opinons time and
time again?
shiv
