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The point I am making is that, in my opinion, in crafts there is no such thing as a completely original idea. The idea, inspiration & influence had to come from somewhere. Does that make it plagiarism?
Many people can create something very similar around the same time without ever having seen each others work. Seeing a piece by someone else that is similar to your own can be very disappointing. That was the case when I first saw the similarities between the bracelets by Aniolek-maly & myself. It would have been easy to jump to the conclusion that she had copied mine but I know I have made things that have turned out to be similar to work by others, so I'm very philosophical about the whole thing. The fact that I found another bracelet in Aniolek-malys gallery that was similar to mine but pre dated it by a few days only goes to prove my point further.
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I hope this clears up any misunderstandings.
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There has been some debate (& I have to say some bad feeling) lately on dA on the subject of plagiarism. The definition of plagiarism is:
'the practice of claiming, or implying, original authorship or incorporating material from someone else's written or creative work, in whole or in part, into one's own without adequate acknowledgement.'
But how can you know or prove that someone has copied your work, especially in crafts such as jewellery making. There is the possibility that more than one person can come up with very similar design ideas completely independently. I've had ideas for a piece, but before making it seen very similar creations elsewhere.
Sweetnuka has been accused of copying the work of Aniolek-maly as their works (below) have similarities to each other.
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:thumb53822362:However Aniolek-maly has just submitted a deviation that has similarities in its design to one of my earlier deviations.
:thumb61925614:Does that mean my work has been plagiarised? If so then there is a degree of flattery in that, although some acknowledgement for providing the inspiration would be appreciated.
Is the similarity coincidence? Highly possible, as with most things it is possible for more than one person to come up with very similar ideas completely independently of each other.
Without trawling through every single jewellery deviation its impossible to guarantee that your design isnt going to resemble something already made by someone else. If there is no acknowledgement for the design idea we have to assume that any similarities are coincidence if there is no evidence to the contrary.
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