Comments on: A Sad Story- MUST READ

By: ian shimkoviak

ian shimkoviak — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:09:39 +0000

take the whole “Good Artists Borrow, Great Artists Steal” statement to a very unfortunate and literal level. Ouch. I feel for Lauren, but I also pity the criminal. what a sad sad person… on many levels.

By: lyndsay

lyndsay — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:08:07 +0000

this makes me feel so sad and so ill in my stomach. a really delusional and desperate act by the “artist” samantha.

this happens in the cake world often too… cake designs being copied, or cake designer’s photos being passed off as other people’s on their own cake business sites. again, just as there is in the illustrator’s community, there are very vigilant cupcake/cake artist watchdogs out there that call out the photo stealers!

also, lauren’s artwork is so lovely… ! and the “tracing work” and coloring samantha did to it made it much more garish and less subtle.

thank you for posting.

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:20:11 +0000

Typing error in previous blog:

I think that the student has probably learned her lesson from this, and really the issue in hand is how does this happen? The problem is often with the industry; from the blogs we can see that Samantha’s actions are not uncommon.

The issue of visual plagiarism has until recently been seen to be a minor distraction in some universities, but at the 2008 International Plagiarism Conference in Newcastle, I heard for the first time that some legal action against students and institutions were beginning to appear, and that visual plagiarism should now be seen as akin to textual plagiarism.

One of the website blogs asks if theft is taught in colleges and universities; at my institution we have in place preventative measures which have been very successful; we merely introduce students to the idea that all copying is theft so the answer to that question is ‘No’.

You may be interested to see that the next Plagiarism Conference at Northumbria University, UK, June 2010, has visual plagiarism on the agenda, so please see the following link if you are interested.

http://www.plagiarismadvice.org/conference.html

In this instance I think Samantha has suffered enough, and lets concentrate on prevention.

Thank you Charlies for pointing out my error, and thanks too Tinker.

By: Tinker

Tinker — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:38:19 +0000

It’s Charlie’s I think, or should be if you are going to criticise.

By: Claire C

Claire C — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:35:50 +0000

Quite right too Malcolm

By: Charlies

Charlies — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:05:52 +0000

Malcolm Clements: Samantha Beeston traced/copied from the work of Lauren Nassef, not the other way around. You wrongly refer to Lauren in your post, again and again.

Next time try reading slower or thinking or something…

By: Malcolm Clements

Malcolm Clements — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:43:30 +0000

I think that the student has probably learned her lesson from this, and really the issue in hand is how does this keep happening? The problem is often with the industry; from the blogs we can see that Lauren’s actions are not uncommon.

One of the website blogs asks if theft is taught in colleges and universities; at my institution we have in place preventative measures which have been very successful, and we merely introduce students to the idea that all copying is theft; oh, and Edith please note, they are not Lauren’s designs whether you like them or not!

You may be interested to see that the next Plagiarism Conference at Northumbria University, June 2010, has visual plagiarism on the agenda, so please see the following link if you are interested.

http://www.plagiarismadvice.org/conference.html

In this instance I think Lauren has suffered enough, and lets concentrate on prevention.

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By: W

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 04:12:41 +0000

Good artists imitate. Great Artists steal.

By: khristian a. howell

khristian a. howell — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:12:44 +0000

This is unbelievable! I am shocked by the nerv of this person. On the positive side, this is just more affirmation for Lauren’s work. Which of course goes without saying is spectacular. It is such a fine line what we choose to show on the web. I want to have faith that people will be decent. I think it is vital to let things flow and share. As creative people we have to remember that we always have more to give and keep doing what we love and sharing it with the world. People who do this are not lucky enough to have their own talent and voice. What goes around ALWAYS comes around.