I was reading the hubbub over Stephenie Meyer supposedly plagiarizing Breaking Dawn from some unknown chick's book. (Note to unknown chick - get a life already. Tell your lawyer to do the same.) After reading some people's responses to the various articles that I read, the thought occurred to me - Does anyone have an original thought anymore?
Think about it. Hollywood is in this weird time warp - making a live action Smurfs (dear god), the Transformers' movies, and - wait for it - Tron 2 (oh, for the love of everything holy...).
In this age of YouTube, FanFics, blogs, everyone sharing every. frickin'. thing. instantly...Somewhere along the way, people's thoughts are going to cross and get jumbled up together.
(I will say that this moron put her original, unpublished work on her web site for any and all to see, then cries that someone may have actually read it and thought enough of it to use it. I don't think Meyer copied it, but seriously...someone send that chick a paw print, stat.)
I have the crazy notion of writing a novel someday. However, stories like this make me think and rethink it all the time. My life has always been influenced by comic books, movies, magazines, TV shows...I am quite the media baby. How then am I expected not to use some of these ideas to spur my own creativity? Am I copying or paying homage? Who is to judge anymore? The internet has turned copyrights onto its ear. Who the hell knows what is actually "original"?
I mean, the land of make believe can't seem to figure it out - how should we?
not a bad observation re the gen'l subject ... if you want some original ideas maybe, ask an old guy, me, e.g. if you have my email address with this comment ... couldn't find a way to send a message and i'm not big on communicating ideas in public ... and/or i REALLY only talk to real people, i don't send messages into the cyber pit and wonder if anyone is there ....
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