Plagiarism, Parody, and Pastiche

Question 1

The First Copyright Law

Answer 1

Hogarth’s Act. Hogarth protested in response to seeing reproductions of a Harlot’s Progress 1732. “Parliament took pity on poor out-of-pocket Hogarth and granted him and his fellow artist-engravers the exclusive right to make copies of their own works for a specified period of time (14 years) after their first publication.

Question 2

Intellectual Effort Becomes Private Property: Technology and Consumerism Helped

Answer 2

“The invention of printing did away with anonymity, fostering ideas of literary fame and the habit of considering intellectual effort as private property. Mechanical multiples of the same text created a public–a reading public. The rising consumer-oriented culture became concerned with labels of authenticity and protection against theft and piracy.” Marshall McLuhan

Question 3

The Creative Commons + Example

Answer 3

You can reproduce it however you want.
Mona Lisa. It is not subject to copyright laws

Question 4

Picasso

Answer 4

Subject to copyright laws (life + 70 years). You can own the painting but its reproduction rights stay with the estate.

Question 5

Fair Use

Answer 5

Laws in the US and the UK allow for the use of copyright-protected material for “the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship or research without prior permission from or financial payment from the copyright holder.”

Question 6

Transformative Use

Answer 6

It can be argued that if you change the original image enough then it becomes something else–it is transformed and therefore not subject to copyright. This argument meets with mixed success in the courts.

Question 7

Copyright Favors Commerce

Answer 7

Lawmakers extend copyright = Money

Question 8

Plagiarism

Answer 8

The “wrongful appropriation” and “stealing and publication” of another author’s “language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions” and the representation of them as one’s own original work.

Question 9

Parody

Answer 9

AKA spoof, send-up, take-off or lampoon, is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

Question 10

Pastiche

Answer 10

A work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. Unlike parody, pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks, the work it imitates.

Question 11

Example of Pastiche

Answer 11

Stranger Things. Homages to 1980s genre films, Stephen King, John Carpenter, and Stephen Spielberg.

Question 12

Paula Scher

Answer 12

Swatch poster is a parody