It's the same bizarre etiquette disconnect that causes people to have no trouble to use images they "found" on the internet (whether photos, art, textures whatever) without any attribution, but if something like two sentences are copied and adapted for a punch line when it is text, it counts as "plagiarism".
Maybe it's because (1) texts are much easier to track down on the internet so more authors/original posters make noise about the copying/adapting, which in turn heightens people's sensitivity towards it, (2) there are more text producers than image producers in the English fandom – majority rules, so to speak, and (3) commercial images from the TV or films companies or the media are customarily appropriated without crediting whereas published books/texts are often quoted with proper crediting so it’s not just a fandom disconnect between texts and images really.
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Date: 2009-05-04 09:12 am (UTC)Maybe it's because (1) texts are much easier to track down on the internet so more authors/original posters make noise about the copying/adapting, which in turn heightens people's sensitivity towards it, (2) there are more text producers than image producers in the English fandom – majority rules, so to speak, and (3) commercial images from the TV or films companies or the media are customarily appropriated without crediting whereas published books/texts are often quoted with proper crediting so it’s not just a fandom disconnect between texts and images really.