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you-are-not-yourself t1_iyf0ovf wrote

Reply to comment by Halvus_I in Kill Bowser. by Ghimzzo

Regarding your edit concerning plagarism, I would direct you to the Wikipedia entry on attribution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_(copyright)

> a work in the public domain, which is any not covered by copyright, has no such attribution requirement... this is the distinguishing factor between plagiarism, which is not a crime, but an unethical act, and copyright infringement, which may be a cause of legal action from the author.

A comment obviously has no copyright attached to it, but it is still a work in the public domain, and claiming it as one's own is the clinical definition of plagarism.

Edit: Also this is clearly not a parody of the comment, it's a direct rip of the comment.

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Halvus_I t1_iyf1dop wrote

Im going to be frank with you, i have very dim view of current ip law, copyright in particular, so I am generally unsympathetic to those that leverage these systems. Its a whole lot of concern over very first world problems. We would be more artful if we abolished copyright altogether, given our current technological point in time.

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you-are-not-yourself t1_iyf1ypu wrote

Thanks for that. I'm of the view that copyright systems, and many other legal systems, imperfectly reflect morality and people should try to follow the ethical spirit of these systems even in situations where they're absent. But your perspective is definitely a valid lens as well.

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