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Contrast this with [[Sergio Leone]]'s ''[[A Fistfulof Dollars]]'', which is a frame for frame remake of Kurosawa's ''[[Yojimbo]]'', but set in Spain pretending to be Texas. When Kurosawa saw the film, he wrote to Leone "It is a very fine film, but it is my film." He sued and won, because Leone didn't have permission, didn't give credit, and didn't pay.
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!:
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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