Shia LaBeouf Gets Caught Ripping Off Daniel Clowes

[sukebanboy]

Love the fact that he even plagiarized his APOLOGY from someone else....

The first part of his apology is very similar to an entry on Yahoo! Answers written four years ago. A user named Lili wrote, “Merely copying isn't particularly creative work, though it's useful as training and practice. Being inspired by someone else's idea to produce something new and different IS creative work, and it may even revolutionalize [sic] the 'stolen' concept.”
LaBeouf wrote: “Copying isn't particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else's idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.”

[Mark Tolch]

I like how before he was caught, he "developed the script organically" based on his experiences with critics. Yeesh.

[Ian Jane]

Instead of giving him credit for an unauthorized adaption, why not go to Clowes and try to put together something legit?

Dumb ass trying to lie his way out of this...

[Andrew Monroe]

I was reading about this earlier, it also seems it's not the first time he's allegedly "borrowed".

It continually amazes me that these people think they're going to get away with it....

[Mark Tolch]

....and now that he's been caught, admits it.

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013...howard-cantour

This kind of thing is ridiculous. You got lost in the creative process and forgot to thank the guy whose work you based your movie on...not just based, but borrowed heavily from, including dialogue???