Not complete plagiarism?

  • xMODEL
    19 years ago

    Hey, I just realised this.. a girl with the username; rachel
    has used lyrics from a song, and has said she wrote it.. as a quote. I'm not quite sure if it's complete plagiarism though... just thought i'd bring it up.

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    link to her profile; http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/author.html?id=209813

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    HER QUOTE......

    When i close my eyes
    I think of heavy burdens
    This one it has a face
    It looks a lot like you

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    part of the lyrics from the song "love rhymes with hideous car wreck" by: the blood brothers....

    Yesterday you gave your burden a name
    Yesterday you gave your burden a face
    But your burden looks an awful lot like her

  • AGirlWorthFightingFor
    19 years ago

    Not plagiarism.

    The idea is the same, but she changed the wording enough so that she can't be liable.

    Copyright does not protect ideas, only expression of ideas.

    She changed the expression. The law is on her side.

  • xMODEL
    19 years ago

    Okay, thanks. =)
    I was just wondering.. so. Hee hee.

  • Mona
    19 years ago

    Those lyrics probably inspired her.

  • Fratality
    19 years ago

    Good ideas are altered
    Great ideas are stolen