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Well, if he bought the rights it isn't really a comparison, is it?
to what?
I actually never saw much of a problem with Baldwin's films, for much the same reasons as Rob Stowell elucidates above (in fact I love the idea.)
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the ways in which originality and appropriation in contemporary art and originality and appropriation in film are perceived differently to originality and appropriation in writing
This is an interesting question, but De Palma's allusions to Hitchcock's works are a red herring. A more apposite example might be something like Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet a 1965 Corman production which consists largely of sequences from the 1962 Russian film Planeta Bur (Planet of Storms), the rights to which Corman had purchased.
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It's a complicated thing. This (warning: really horrible) single "borrows" heavily from two of rock's staples. One suspects a deal with the appropriate publishers, so you probably can't call it plagiarism, per se, but I wish you could.
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Gotta give props too to 'keeper Mark Paston for saving a penalty (admittedly, a weak one) and at least one other fairly solid shot on goal.
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Goal!!!!!!!!!1!
Win!
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On a completely different subject, the push for an NZ US Free Trade Agreement continues apace.
Heh.
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"A 20-minute, must-see lecture on the ACTA", according to boing boing (I haven't watched it yet.)
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I ultimately just feel like this idea that writing has about itself, and that its readers has, of AUTHENTICITY is just a pretense.
And..? In an imperfect world, is not a pretence of authenticity better than no sense of authenticity at all? ;)
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"I'm sorry that any offence was taken" is a really slimy passive-aggressive way of not taking ownership for your own behaviour.
Disagree. Often, sure, but not necessarily.
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In a delightful spoonerism, a member of the public on the news last night referred to Hone Harawira as Mr. Honiara.