2ch’s Plagiarism Police Quite Amazing

If only such interest was directed into more productive ventures...

IT era - when using a model for art becomes a crime.

2ch can spot character cameos smaller than a cm in brief background scenes in their favorite anime. No life doesn't begin to describe.

God damnit, finally the word 'plagiarism' is used correctly at least in the case of the watermarked picture. But the rest of it IS NOT PLAGIARISM! THIS IS REFERENCE! Yes some of them may be tracing, and that's very frowned upon, but for fuck's sake, why are people only NOW giving attention to things artists have done for centuries, up to and including the google image search era. There's nothing new happening now. If nothing else, 2ch is slow as fuck in realizing what the business requires and completely misrepresenting it.

Characters are different of course, since those are actually designed for another story, but these are real life structures and creations that are being emulated and imitated in the stories by people who need this reference for accuracy. Some of it's laziness, some of it is time crunch, etc.

The cover in the OP however is inexcusable. At least they could have PURCHASED the picture, since it's apparently a stock photo anyway and that's what they're meant to be used for in the first place.

If you call it detective work, then I'd name it STALKING.

ya know, I wish they'd just become ACTUAL detectives. They'd be thousands of times better than any of the current force, and really, physical crimes would go down to like 1% of their current levels.

2ch's plagiarist police would make every murder case seem as easy as cake to solve. One look at the crime scene and three hours of web surfing and they'd get the perp.

Oh Ghost Dog. I love the 'so dumb it's funny' puns. + for you.

"YEAHHHHHHH!"

the artist can trolling all of those fucking detective with saying "i bought the picture, it's not plagiarism you faggots"

end of story

Do you realize they most probably using some software that searches the web for pictures and compares them pixel by pixel (or whatever thechnology they use). I'm pretty sure it is not done by hand.

yea, they're probably using google's "similiar image" tool.

Who the hell thumbed you down bro? Must be some stupid lame shmuck

I'd venture a guess and say many if not most of the "OMFG PLAGIARISM!" threads on 2ch (that ends up as sancon articles) follow something along the lines of:

1. Someone finds something that's actually plagiarism and posts it.

2. Post get attention and people start trashtalking the author.

3. People start searching for more plagiarism by the same author, gets drawn into the mob mentality and start posting stuff that's in no way plagiarism.

4. More and more people want to "contribute" and quickly it spirals into "OMG PLAGIARMS! I FOUND A PHOTO OF A GIRL SITTING ON A CHAIR IN SCHOOLGIRL UNIFORM! AND THERES A GIRL SITTING ON A CHAIR IN SCHOOLGIRL UNIFORM IN THIS MANGA! TOTAL PLAGIARISM!!!!".

At least that's the conclusion I draw from most of these "2ch finds plagiarism"-articles here, since 90-95% of the "examples" given in those articles usually isn't even close to plagiarism, instead mostly being examples of that there are some poses that are quite common.

This is not plagiarism at all.

Cut from Wiki:
Similarly, in storytelling and literature, it is a practice common to all the major authors, to copy from parts of other works and transpose them in their own world. The value attributed to originality is also culturally contigent; some societies, like the one at the time of Shakespeare, instead used to appreciate more the similarity with an admired classical work, like in the case of Shakespeare's rewriting of Plautus' Menaechmi for The Comedy of Errors.[5] Unlike in the academia world, in which references are expected to be cited explicitly and precisely, in literature they are usually not revealed or kept implicit.

If this is plagiarism might as well put the whole stock and barrel of anime in.

I'm about 90% sure 004 isn't the right one.

@Anonymous above me

*thumbs up and nods in agreement*

In time: I still think it's some epic skillz there, takes a lot of work and observation. Still, copyright must die... LOL

Drawing good with no reference is creative. Drawing with reference is creative. Copying images is not creative. You don't understand the meaning of creativity.