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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
If someone did make changes and slap their name on it, that would be plagiarism. If the person discloses that changes were made, then they aren't pretending it is the same as the original. When movies come on TV, they often have a disclosure statement that the movie has been edited for content or time. People may not like the changes, but they have been informed of them.
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So it's apparently OK to change and twist an author's words and meanings but not to steal them outright?
Geez, read between the lines. The zombie books seem to have both the original and zombificationer's names on the book. They don't have only the original author's name.
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It's no different than with paper. Paper copies that have been changed from the original aren't anything new.
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It is entirely different from paper. Most of us don't have personal publishing houses and printing presses and the money to print thousands of copies of "new and improved" classics and distribute them. But I can dig up some PG title and re-edit it to my liking, upload it and link to it, and pollute the Internet with it. And so can anyone else who feels like it. And if the PG headers remain, people will think they're getting a legit version.