Examples used in post, I agree plagiarism, part of art is having something original. There are only so many ways you can do an Elvis Velvet portrait before it is no longer art. How many type and style of dogs or cats or mice or horses sitting around a card able playing poker do we need to see and still call it art, where is the originality. I do not think I have ever seen a portrait or a poster of four penguins sitting around a Risk game board playing, and if I did would I think of it as art? or a cheap knock off of the dogs playing poker?
Sometimes it is hard to see the plagiarism, and I understand a proof post of all of them would be impossible, (yes I know there are that many). Every now and then though a link to the copied image when not provided would be nice. Not always, just every now and then.
Along with the art plagiarism there is a lot of photo plagiarism with cropped out bits and pieces of images and being claimed as being taken by the poster. That I would like to see more busting of also.
Plagiarism I feel is one of the most important things to control, if something has not been posted as free to use, or through a system that allows Share Link such as youtube, then copying and posting it is plagiarism. If it comes from a share link site then it is not plagiarism. If the person that posted it to the share link site wanted their name associated with the link then it is up to them to add it to the share link information, otherwise I feel it is free to use. Whether a cable news station, or Billy Joe Bob down the block. If they use a site with share Link then it is not copyright infringement.
If an individual does not want the link/video shared, then I am sure there is a means on youtube to disable that share function button, and if not then the poster needs to clearly state not to be shared.
I have had my issues with you in the past, but that was and is in the past, it is time to move forward and in a decentralized system there are going to be a lot of differing opinions. As a community we are going to need to take on the burden of defining and refining our ideas on what is right and what is wrong, with leaving room for the outlier types to still enjoy Hive. Midlet has started the ball rolling as the Admin/Owner of OCA community, one I enjoy a lot, I hope to see other communities start to speak up as to what will be allowed in their communities.
The Art communities on line and off line have always had to contend with copycat/plagiarism, and it is nice to see people taking action on Hive to curtail the adverse effect of it.