Desperate: fellow author help Needed!

[CharleyH]

Problem:
A couple of people have commented that a story I posted "reminded" them of a particular film. They were good comments, but it bothers me because I pride myself on writing, at the very least, something semi-original and at the most based in my experience. It also bothers me because I think, "Well, if two people thought it and wrote it, well, how many people thought it and didn't write it?"

Background:
I come from a multi-dimentional background, which includes film. Film is highly influencial to me, and well, having sex in a theatre isn't exactly an 'uncommon' fantasy. The situation in my story arose from a conference, and not a film showing. However - HELLO - conferences in themselves are dull in metaphor. At least this one was.

Now, I did saw this particular film this past summer, 'Femme Fatale,' and from my p.o.v., other than that the girls are in a bathroom, and one is blond, (as I happen to fakely be) and one is long dark haired, as I happen to enjoy . . . nothing in my story reminds me of the film. LOL, yet I'm worried? Well - I'm fucking sensitive to plagerism, having had it happend to me. So can you, as an author, inadvertantly plagerize from a film? A moral dilemma to be sure.

BUT the QUESTION: If my story reminds someone of a film, does it matter if it reminds them, and not me?

I will include the link should anyone need to compare, but am not sure if it will auto-link, but well the address anyhow.

THANK YOU in advance!


http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=216451:)

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Problem:
A couple of people have commented that a story I posted "reminded" them of a particular film. They were good comments, but it bothers me because I pride myself on writing, at the very least, something semi-original and at the most based in my experience. It also bothers me because I think, "Well, if two people thought it and wrote it, well, how many people thought it and didn't write it?"

Background:
I come from a multi-dimentional background, which includes film. Film is highly influencial to me, and well, having sex in a theatre isn't exactly an 'uncommon' fantasy. The situation in my story arose from a conference, and not a film showing. However - HELLO - conferences in themselves are dull in metaphor. At least this one was.

Now, I did saw this particular film this past summer, 'Femme Fatale,' and from my p.o.v., other than that the girls are in a bathroom, and one is blond, (as I happen to fakely be) and one is long dark haired, as I happen to enjoy . . . nothing in my story reminds me of the film. LOL, yet I'm worried? Well - I'm fucking sensitive to plagerism, having had it happend to me. So can you, as an author, inadvertantly plagerize from a film? A moral dilemma to be sure.

BUT the QUESTION: If my story reminds someone of a film, does it matter if it reminds them, and not me?

I will include the link should anyone need to compare, but am not sure if it will auto-link, but well the address anyhow.

THANK YOU in advance!


http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=216451:)

Captive Hearts is a pirate tale, does that mean I am plagirizing? Certainly not. Nothing you come up with dosen't bear a resemblence to something that has been done before. A fan of a particular movie may well see parallels in your works. So what? I can pick a handfull of recent action movies and argue they are basically the same. And they are.

If something looks to be stolen from a movie, but youmade it up yourelf just let the comparrisons roll off you back

-Colly

 

[CharleyH]

thanks - that's all I needed!

T

 

[Gary Chambers]

... I'm fucking sensitive to plagerism, having had it happend to me. So can you, as an author, inadvertantly plagerize from a film? A moral dilemma to be sure...http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=216451:)

"Plagiarism is the most sincere form of flattery." -- H. Heffner

 

[gauchecritic]

The best term to remember is 'borrowing'. Spielberg, Heinlein and even Shakespeare did it to varying degrees. (amongst everybody else)

Consider it this way. You see a film, you read a book and the very first thing that the author asks of you is "suspend your disbelief". This means that you are viewing/reading as though it were real. Now let's say you write a story from your own life, changing names to protect the perverted. Ask this: Are you plagiarising your own life?

I've recently been told that there is absolutely nothing wrong with borrowing.

Being influenced by someone is not the same as copying.

Gauche

 

[MaxSebastian]

Every writer is influenced by lots of things. There is no copyright on ideas.

Suggest any movie and I'll bet it reminds someone else of another one for some reason. Star Wars - well, there's a wise old guy (Obi Wan-Kenobi) guiding a young hero through a fantastical place leading up to an ultimate battle with a great figure of evil... reminds me of Lord of the Rings... Back to the Future... Harry Potter... The Matrix... even James Bond if you stretch it a bit (Old guy is "Q" and so on).

Plagiarism is when a writer steals some of another writer's writings or characters without permission.

If they're all your original words, all new characters, there's no problem really. Just reminding somebody about something is definitely not plagiarism.