*hugs you*

When I got the original message from the person asking for help, my heart sank because of the name of the accuser. She and I have been flisted for years and she was actually one of the moderators on the INAP site.

I just... it seemed that it all came down to the definition of plagiarism versus adaptation and whether in an adaptation one would be free to use credited content (in this case dialogue) from the original.

I spent four years studying postmodernity in my degree and it seems to be that it's the perfect example of what Fredric Jameson called 'intertextual knowingness' and 'empty pastiche'. Does that make it good? Depends on the writer really. Does it make it right? Difficult to answer. Does it make it plagiarism? I honestly don't think it can be said to be such since the source is fully acknowledged and credited.

Hopefully it's just a flash in the pan and it'll blow over soon enough.

*hugs*