Episode 408 - The imitation game

Jan 6, 2019

Happy new year! This is the first Quackcast recorded in 2019! Pitface is back too, can you believe it? In this Quackcast we chat about Imitation, based on Amelius's newspost from last Sunday. How do you know if someone has copied your work, just been influenced by it or influenced from the same sources as you, or has actually stolen your work wholesale? And what do you DO about it? Is imitation or someone doing the same thing as your “original” idea, always a bad thing?

Topics and Show Notes

We try and answer those questions in the Quackcast, but I'll address some briefly… It can be hard to tell if someone has stolen your themes and ideas because it's often not much different to influence or drawing from the same sources of inspiration. Either was it's not always a bad thing, actually it can be really useful! For one thing it's quite flattering that someone has liked your work enough to follow the same path. Aside from that, contacting them and teaming up can make it easier to sell your work to people because now there are more versions of the same thing, you can even attract their fans (and they yours), it's the same reason different banks and things are always clustered together.

But when a person straight out steals your art or your whole comic and slaps their name on it, that can be awful! Stolen art is akin to the phenomena of “stolen valour”, where civilians dress as veteran soldiers and wear medals they didn't earn. They do it because they crave the reverence and appreciation of the public without having to put in the work, time and sacrifice to have earned it. People imagine that art thieves just do it for the money, but that's not often the case. All they want is the “fame”. In cases like that you have to approach the administrator of the website and get it taken down. Don't confront them directly.
Check out Amelius's newspost for a lot more info on the subject!

This week our theme from Gunwallace is Scarred Eden. A million futuristic laser violins play a symphony of light and sound, weaving the landscapes of our dreams against the awesomely huge backdrop of a swirling, purple, star filled nebula…

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Links
Amelius newspost on Imitation in comics - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2018/dec/30/imitation-flavor/

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Featured music:
Scarred Eden - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Scarred_Eden/, by Damehelsing, rated M

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anonymous?

Ozoneocean at 2:01AM, Jan. 8, 2019

Haha, he likes praise ^_^

damehelsing at 1:25AM, Jan. 8, 2019

Big thanks to Gunwallace for the music, it's absolutely beautiful and I really loved it! Thank you so much! ^-^ Keep up the awesome work to Gunwallace and QuackCast! <3


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