So, recently I've been perusing through various discussions regarding Cassandra Clare/Claire, a Big Name Fan responsible for the Draco Trilogy, and now her own published novels, the Mortal Instruments series. Now, admittedly, I have not read the Draco Trilogy. However, during my search, I found that Ms. Clare had been accused of plagiarism for not citing excerpts taken from Pamela Dean's Secret Country trilogy. There were also several incidents of citing excerpts explicitly taken from various TV shows and other books. Whether the sources that were cited can be taken as plagiarism is up for debate. However, that brings me to an interesting point.
Kingdom Hearts revolves around previously established Disney movies, obviously. But does that mean that by directly quoting character dialogue from, say, The Emperor's New Groove for Kuzco inside of Kuzco's world is plagiarism? Quoting from the source is about as "strictly canon" as one can get, but one is still lifting the dialogue directly from the source. And while I can place a disclaimer saying that all Disney and Square Enix characters are copyright their respective owners, does that cover dialogue and scenarios as well?
What do the rest of you think? Any thoughts?
EDIT: This is in regards to fanfiction.
Kingdom Hearts revolves around previously established Disney movies, obviously. But does that mean that by directly quoting character dialogue from, say, The Emperor's New Groove for Kuzco inside of Kuzco's world is plagiarism? Quoting from the source is about as "strictly canon" as one can get, but one is still lifting the dialogue directly from the source. And while I can place a disclaimer saying that all Disney and Square Enix characters are copyright their respective owners, does that cover dialogue and scenarios as well?
What do the rest of you think? Any thoughts?
EDIT: This is in regards to fanfiction.
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