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Cartoon: Plagiarism pays off ($2.1 billion to be exact)

Written by Tiao Guan, Cartoonist
Published: Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
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  • 8:12 a.m. on Feb. 10th, 2010
    Posted by
    notmike

    "I need an idea for a new Daily Prince cartoon. Eureka! I'll take something I saw on Digg last week and call it my own."
    http://digg.com/comedy/Proof_that_Avatar_is_act...

  • 11:56 a.m. on Feb. 10th, 2010
    Posted by
    what notmike said

    ^^^

  • 12:22 p.m. on Feb. 10th, 2010
    Posted by
    Keung Yoon Bae Registered User

    disagree. a lot of people have made the pocahontas-avatar connection, the cartoonist didn't necessarily see it on digg.

  • 3:10 p.m. on Feb. 10th, 2010
    Posted by
    Zach Zimmerman Registered User

    If a lot of people have made a connection, then why is the author just repeating their observation?

    Everyone has been making jokes about Avatar for over two months now, which means that something published today in our campus paper needs to add something new to the conversation or at least acknowledge the voices that have proceeded it. The world of comedy is a fast one, and this joke has already been played out and the moment's gone.

    For a paper that is printed daily, it's shocking the cartoons can't be more topical. Or in this case, original.

  • 3:16 p.m. on Feb. 10th, 2010
    Posted by
    Zach Zimmerman Registered User

    Also, it's a bit ironic that the title of the cartoon accuses James Cameron of plagiarism, when this cartoon is, in fact, plagiarism. Of course, any film with such caricatured characters as "Avatar" can be accused of plagiarism since they're just borrowing from the same stockpile of pop culture stereotypes). At least Cameron added something new (technological, although not cinematically) to the conversation, while the cartoon simply rehashes the same joke.

  • 11:55 p.m. on Feb. 10th, 2010
    Posted by
    irony

    "Also, it's a bit ironic that the title of the cartoon accuses James Cameron of plagiarism, when this cartoon is, in fact, plagiarism."
    I thought this was the point... it's like meta-snarkiness

  • 1:29 a.m. on Feb. 11th, 2010
    Posted by
    @zach

    Since, as you said, the paper has to be printed daily, originality can get kinda stretched thin...

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