Photography and visual plagiarism

In laymans terms photographic plagiarism occurs when one photographer copies the work of another photographer, by making a new image that is so similar to the image being copied that any viewer looking at the two images is struck by their overwhelming correlation.

Youll soon see what I mean when you look through the examples in the articles below. Having seen blatant plagiarism of my wife Magda Indigos work on Flickr I decided to write a blog on the topic. However I soon discovered that the subject of photographic plagiarism has been covered extensively, so I refer you to a selection of articles which I found interesting...

Getty Images wins plagiarism appeal

Visual plagiarism

Plagiarism in photography

Visual plagiarism strange case of Rosie

Photographer gets plagiarized then censored

When does similar become too similar

Plagiarism in 2008

Madonna turns to Cowboy Kate for ‘inspiration’

There is nothing better than coming up with something new. To stand out from the crowd you need to do something different, carve a new path. Be a leader, not a follower. As the old saying goes, we stand on the shoulders of giants who have come before us, so by all means my advice is to look and learn from the masters, but then do some original with that knowledge. To slavishly copy and then pass other peoples creative ideas off as your own work is not flattery, its the last resort of the creatively bankrupt.

Till soon

Paul

www.indigo2photography.co.uk

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