To what extent can you say you're inspired by an author

I wonder if /lit/ has read Higurashi.

>>8300115
I've read Higurashi. Umineko is better.

Please answer my question.

to the point you stop getting away with it. Live big, anon

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If anyone recognizes it, you've passed that point.

For instance...

Copying a text word by word and saying it is your original idea is plagiarism.

Taking and idea from an author and applying it to your work in a distinctive and personal manner while at the same time making evident who was your inspiration, is not.

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>>8300122
Well the quote ''Good Artists Copy; Great Artists Steal'' comes to mind. It only become plagiarism if there is nothing new introduced. Copying a product will only go so far, whereas if you steal a concept and build on it, it no longer become plagiarism but its own thing.

Just as Higurashi copied many of its concept from some horror VN who's name I can't remember, and Umineko copied Ten Little Niggers mixed with Forest.

Someone else would likely tell you that the art of being inspired is hiding who inspired you and what you copied from them. There's the well known story of Hunter S. Thompson who copied the great gatsby so that he could know how to write like a great author before he got his own voice.

True patricians will intentionally plagiarize other people's works and then say they were trying to make an artistic statement with that plagiarism

>>8300139
It lacks a statement and vision then.
A person who plagiarizes without knowing what values and themes the original person set to establish will be lost in the plagiarizing. This is why societies does not value copies as much as their originals. You can value the skill and style it was copied, but not the art itself.

>>8300145
>A person who plagiarizes without knowing what values and themes the original person set to establish will be lost in the plagiarizing.
what do you think 'artistic statement with that plagiarism' means ya dummy.

>>8300137
Is Forest good?