Jayson Blair (Plagarism)
“In 2003 Jayson Blair was a rising star in journalism and a reporter for the New York Times. However, in 2003 an editor at the San Antonio Express-News had noticed similarities between a column by Blair and an earlier work by one of their reporters Macarena Hernandez. The Times launched an investigation into Blair and discovered that at least 36 of his 73 articles contained instances of plagiarism, fabrication or other unethical behavior.”
Blair resigned from the New York Times and, for a time, his name became synonymous with the word “plagiarism”.
Sources:
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2012/08/21/5-famous-plagiarists-where-are-they-now/
Homage
Let's say a certain director has a technique of having "flying doves" at climactic moments in his movie, to symbolize freedom and longing. Then let's say another movie is filmed about a similar theme, and at the right moment there are a bunch of flying doves. The second director is not plagiarizing the first director. You can't copyright flying doves :) The second director deliberately wants people to think of the first director in that situation, a tip of the hat in essence to say "I give credit to this previous master for inspiring me." It's meant as a flattering kudos.
Of course, homage only really works if the audience knows of the first author's work and gets the connection! So homage needs to be both known and appropriate to work well.
The main key here is that the homage is a highlight in an original story.
http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/writing/basics/plagiarismhomage.asp
“In 2003 Jayson Blair was a rising star in journalism and a reporter for the New York Times. However, in 2003 an editor at the San Antonio Express-News had noticed similarities between a column by Blair and an earlier work by one of their reporters Macarena Hernandez. The Times launched an investigation into Blair and discovered that at least 36 of his 73 articles contained instances of plagiarism, fabrication or other unethical behavior.”
Blair resigned from the New York Times and, for a time, his name became synonymous with the word “plagiarism”.
Sources:
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2012/08/21/5-famous-plagiarists-where-are-they-now/
Homage
Let's say a certain director has a technique of having "flying doves" at climactic moments in his movie, to symbolize freedom and longing. Then let's say another movie is filmed about a similar theme, and at the right moment there are a bunch of flying doves. The second director is not plagiarizing the first director. You can't copyright flying doves :) The second director deliberately wants people to think of the first director in that situation, a tip of the hat in essence to say "I give credit to this previous master for inspiring me." It's meant as a flattering kudos.
Of course, homage only really works if the audience knows of the first author's work and gets the connection! So homage needs to be both known and appropriate to work well.
The main key here is that the homage is a highlight in an original story.
http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/writing/basics/plagiarismhomage.asp