{"id":839,"date":"2012-01-13T16:20:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T21:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/?p=839"},"modified":"2012-01-13T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T21:24:16","slug":"copycats-related-craziness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/copycats-related-craziness\/","title":{"rendered":"Copycats &#8211; related craziness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton839\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fcopycats-related-craziness%2F&amp;text=Copycats%20%26%238211%3B%20related%20craziness&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fcopycats-related-craziness%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/copycats-related-craziness\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p>Writer Whit Coppedge, in his comment on the main Copycats post, suggests we take a look at the saga of Brad Vice. I just did, and WOW. I won&#8217;t go into too much detail &#8212; the following articles will do that. Short version: Guy wins short story book contest, similarities (later revealed to be an honest homage) discovered, guy loses book contract and job.<\/p>\n<p>Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storysouth.com\/comment\/2005\/11\/the_literary_lynching_of_brad.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> for a 2005 story about the Vice saga.<\/p>\n<p>Then go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopsmilingonline.com\/story_detail.php?id=973\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> for an update from 2008, where we hear from the author himself.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypress.com\/article-12442-a-charming-plagiarist.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here&#8217;s<\/span><\/a> an interesting counterpoint to the 2005 StorySouth article from above.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy! (Wait, that seems like the wrong word here.) Uh&#8230;digest!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Matt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tweetbutton839\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fcopycats-related-craziness%2F&amp;text=Copycats%20%26%238211%3B%20related%20craziness&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal&amp;counturl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mattdebenham.com%2Fblog%2Fcopycats-related-craziness%2F\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><p>Yikes! A terrible story relating to our post on copycats!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-a-semi-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattdebenham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}