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On the other hand, a story about a farmboy who rescues a princess and destroys the [[Big Bad]]'s [[Doomsday Device]] is not necessarily plagiarism; if it's different enough from ''[[Star Wars]]'', all you can say is that they both make use of some of the same [[Trope|tropes]] (and, indeed, [[George Lucas]] [[George Lucas Throwback|cribbed from quite a few older sources]]).
To confuse matters, there are a few cases where copying directly from the work of others is acceptable -- namely, [[Homage|homages]], [[Shout
A [[Shout
A [[Homage]] is more difficult to defend. In general, a homage will use imagery and ideas from the original material but with sufficient differences that one can easily tell that the new work is influenced by what has gone before.
For example, the fifth in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Dark Tower]]'' series sees the heroes defending a town against raiders who attack every so often, in a plot which was acknowledged [[Lampshade Hanging|in the series itself]] as being inspired by both ''The Seven Samurai'' and ''The Magnificent Seven''. However, the characters were original, and the setting and raiders were largely the product of King's own imagination (albeit containing numerous [[Shout
A "remake" or "retelling" is doing the original work over again with some relatively minor changes, while openly admitting that it's heavily derived from the original. A famous example of a retelling is John Sturges' film ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'', which had the plot and even some of the same dialogue as Akira Kurosawa's earlier ''[[Seven Samurai]]''. The only real difference is that while Kurosawa's film was set in feudal Japan, Sturges' was set in [[The Wild West]]. Why is this not plagiarism? Because Sturges had two things going for him: Kurosawa knew what he was doing and gave his approval, and Sturges openly acknowledged that he was simply moving ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' to the Old West. He never claimed that it was a purely original work.
Contrast this with [[Sergio Leone]]'s ''[[A
Finally, [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|a parody]] is the hardest thing to guard against accusations of plagiarism, because parodies tend deliberately imitate the thing they're making fun of in order to get jokes. In many cases, particularly on the Internet, accusations of plagiarism are avoided simply by sticking a note saying something along the lines of "This is a parody. [work being parodied] is the intellectual property of [copyright holder]" at the top of the story or sidebar of the [[YouTube]] video. This is used by ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series (Web Video)|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' and its [[Follow the Leader|imitators]]. The doctrine that is invoked to protect parodies (and other forms of copying) is called [[Fair Use]].
If a book parodies another work of fiction, there is generally an introduction in which the author clearly states that this is a parody, and explains why they are making fun of the original work. This approach is used in ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'', a parody of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', among others.
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