Inspiration and plagiarism: what is the line that separates them?
Dec. 17th, 2025 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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antishurtugal_rebornLately, I've been asking myself this question, especially with everything that's happening with artificial intelligence (which many expect writers to embrace, or else they'll be finished; or something like that).
I admit that when creating my story and building the world around it, I used several elements from other media (books, movies, series, and even anime) as inspiration. And recently, I've been afraid of being criticized, or worse, accused of plagiarism, because of the similarities between the elements I used in my story.
Or maybe I'm just being paranoid (as I always am).
Anyway, putting my paranoid thoughts aside, what do you all think? I'm all ears.
(I have a feeling I've asked this question before, but I can't be sure.)
