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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Plagiarism is not flattery

I was in the midst of scrambled, homeworking panic last night when I was interrupted with this email:

"WOW...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jCeFfCCY4sQ

I guess we're just too awesome. They all wanna be like us.
Too bad ours is like 9823472934 times better"



Apparently, Michigan State University's Alpha Kappa Psi liked our rush video a lot. So much that they blatantly copied our video down to details I never intended to notice. From the song, theme, stop motion, (badly) cutout photos, boxers, books, backpack, shoes, MAN these people should have just asked us to edit our version to fit their chapter.

Here's our original video:



...and here's the copycat's:



Now, I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but plagiarism is not. I would have appreciated if they just credited the idea to us because...well, they plagiarized! They even disabled comments on YouTube, otherwise I was going to put a link to the real deal. The only thing that kept me sane and laughing was that their copy was badly done! Sorry, "brothers" or not, it's a terrible mimic.

[EDIT] Yay, they added credit to UCSD!

Another was found:


They took our exact speech!


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