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Originally Posted by Fringecup
Oh, boy! I've saved so many recipes that I got from other people, and I didn't note each donor's name. I'm sure my Grandma and hers before her did the same. Now if I wanted to publish a cookbook and used some of these hand-me-down recipes, would I REALLY be guilty of plagiarization?
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If I went through Recipezaar and cut and pasted all of the recipes I liked and sold it as a cookbook under my own name and without revealing that I got the recipes from random strangers on the web, would you consider that plagiarism?
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Originally Posted by Fringecup
Years ago, composers used to copy each others' works, make some changes to them and that was considered fine. Do we call someone a plagiarizor because he wrote a sonata based on a theme from Paganini? I think it's just extending knowledge by standing upon someone else's shoulders.
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Variations on a Theme of Paganini 1) cites a source and 2) is an original piece of work that uses as its source of inspiration someone else's work. Rossini did not copy, note for note, Paganini's work, and fully acknowledges in the title of the work the source. From a legal viewpoint, copyright did not exist in those times so it's a moot issue. (Standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.)