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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is incredibly easy to come up with a similar idea to someone else's, in any form of art, because in essence everything has already been thought of. And with the volume of content being created, it's impossible to check one's work against every single existing piece of work.

Hence why there will always be accusations of cheating, especially ones targeted towards famous people, because they will be more vulnerable to negative press.

This is a ridiculous charge, given the innocuous similarities; and the target being a President's daughter makes me think it was intentionally fabricated, instead of being merely a good faith accusation. [/quote]

This.

I published a nonfiction book (with a major publisher) and used lines from a particular poem about the topic as the epigraph in the front of the book.

After it was published, I was contacted by someone who had self-published on the same subject, and used the same epigraph.

He accused me of plagiarism, and there was no real way for me to prove that I hadn't copied him [b](even though it's awfully unlikely I could have stumbled across a copy of his book if I'd tried).[/b][/quote]

This is nothing like what Malia is accused of. Malia was literally at the obscure film's premier screening at Sundance last year. She was in the audience and ripped it off right after. It's not like this was a screening a decade ago and now it's in a commercial. It was literally right after she saw the obscure independent film.[/quote]

This is a big deal about nothing. Just think about how similar a lot of fashion photography is across many, many photographers.  Lots of pouty chicks with the same ridiculous poses clutching a handbag in the same lackadaisical way.  Somebody up above called the clipped scenes "mini tropes".  I agree with that.  The works look a lot further apart when you ignore the edit done by the self-interested person.

Oh and by the way, I'm not a bot or a shill.  I'm an ordinary DCUM reader with an opinion and no connection to any of the affected parties.[/quote]

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