Why You Should Never Plagiarize

So some guy in Tisch thought it would be a good idea to plagiarize an animation and submit it to a festival. He won the festival, but was found out by his peers.

While the "whole story," as the loud-mouthed whistle-blower (who is friends with my roommate) likes to spew everywhere, is that the director denied it for days until pressure from the film crew forced him to confess and withdraw his film, I think this has brought out a lot of useless ire. Essentially, people are being really unforgiving and cruel.

There's a lot to bring up about this, whether it's the way the public responds to plagiarism, or maybe that sense of intense competition Marcelle brought up when we were discussing MFA programs. I'm of the belief that students here, and especially in Tisch, can be unnecessarily hostile.

Perhaps most baffling is that the short, though it won the Campus Film Festival or whatever, is pretty bad. I watched it before I watched the film from which is stole and yet the French animation still resonated about three thousand times more deeply.





Thoughts? I know Gwynna's in the film program, where, according to my roommate, this has blown up.