Is Fan Fiction Plagiarism or Inspiration?

How derivative works foster creativity

Fan fiction (or “fanfiction”), in its most basic definition, is a written genre that uses elements from conventionally distributed work (such as established characters, settings, plots or scenes) to create new works of fiction. Because of fanfiction’s derivative nature, there has been much debate among authors, publishers and those who ...
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Is Fan Fiction Plagiarism or Inspiration?

The Anxiety of Poetry

Interpreting the Jill Bialosky scandal

The poem goes on addressing the dead: “You mixed up farewell to an epoch with the beginning of a new one,/ Inspiration of hatred with lyrical beauty;/ Blind force with accomplished shape.” War starkly polarizes whole peoples into friends and enemies and has the power to twist human values: In ...
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