pakuri

From Marxy:

For a long time, I have been writing about pakuri - the unprincipled use of creative elements from someone else in a similar context as the original without self-acknowledgment of the borrowing. There remains a loud minority contingent who believes that there is Western bias underlying any judgments against pakuri. I have countered this with examples of a Japanese gallery threatening to sue a record label for pakuri of their exclusive images, the Japanese net community criticizing Japanese singers for pakuri, and the mainstream media criticizing a Japanese painter for ripping off a Western painter.

Now, we have a more interesting case: a Western band re-creating a work from a Japanese photographer for the cover of their DVD without acknowledgment of the original work.

A japanese photographer meaning Miyamoto Ryuji. A Western Band meaning New Order.

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