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Originally Posted by AZ Foreman
And literary verse isn't a big money biz like pop song. It's not like the poetry scene has massive amounts of cash floating around for plagiarists to horn in on. So I can't see whom this really hurts.
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Originally Posted by AZ Foreman
Till someone is defrauded out of large amounts of money in some way as a result of undetected textual appropriation, I still don't really care.
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How conventional and materialistic this argument is! Apparently, the only way a plagiarist could do harm would be if money were involved. A poet has a right to want money for her work, but not anything else, reputation, for instance; stealing that's okay.
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Originally Posted by AZ Foreman
what would we say if the end result had been a better poem, as with DesRuisseaux I think it sometimes is?
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DesRuisseaux could have noted that Renwick's poem inspired his. She would then have gained something from his fame and his use of her work--something you may not value, but to which she has as much right as money.