Plagiarism, Homage or Parody?

Examples from posterpage.ch

Homage

• a reference within a creative work to someone who greatly influenced the artist

1925, Aleksandr Rodchenko, “BOOKS”

1930, Gustav Klutsis

1993, Leonid Sokov

2002, Lin Horng-Jer

2009, Svend Gregory & Justin Flewitt

Homage?

1934, Herbert Matter, Schweiz

1984, Paula Scher, Swatch

Parody

• is a work created to mock, comment on, or poke fun at an original work, by means of humorous imitation

1942, J. Howard Miller, We can do it! (Rosie the riveteer)

2006, Mica Wright, Up yours, Bush!

2008, "BoiseNoise", Yes we can

2009, Sepideh Riahi, We can do it!

1959, Viggo Vagnby 2009, Camilla Brodersen

http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex216oba/ex216oba.htm

Plagiarism

• use or close imitation of the language

and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work

Left: “Awesome Merchandise” by Combination13

Top: Ripoff by Janeandjoe Save BBC 6 Music campaign

Source: http://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/?p=5817

From L to R: Plan B Ad Agency, Blooming Color, and Plan B LLC in Dubai.

Ad agency in Chicago, Plan B / suburban Chicago printing company called Blooming Color / a company out of Dubaihttp://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com/blog3/?p=5764

Left: Wozzeck (Jan lenica, 1964); Right: “Modern Dog”, by Sara Thompson, trying to represent the "style of Shogo Ota"

Where would you draw the line?

Give credit

Left: Peace, Luba Lukova, 2001Right: book cover by Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich, 2009

Would you like someone doing this to you?

Sources:• Posterpage.ch

http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex199dej/ex199dej.htm

• You thought we wouldn’t notice- Bloghttp://youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com

• Suggested “best practices” for using the artwork of othershttp://www.docspopuli.org/articles/RecyclingArt.html

Timeline:

Next week: April 5th Easter Monday: no lecture• Tue-Thu: 2nd draft in labs

Presentations• Mon April 12th-15th: final crit in lecture and labs• By Wed 21st: final grades per mail• Calculation errors: verify by Fri 23rd (latest!)

Now:• Course Evaluations• After lecture: make up quiz rm 4260

Fin