Copying style is understandable.  Putting one's face on existing photo, which is somebody else's work, is stealing.

In all relevance, I don't think we will start putting out original ideas until our society is more receptive of art in general. 

We don't encourage artists, we simply don't give a sh!t about them, so no demand for their products, creativity, and hence no supply from their side.

On the other hand, blatant copying exists because there is a market for consumption of those goods. 

I personally think this starts at school. Although we're encouraged not to cheat in exams, we merely write everything the teacher writes in the backboard. It is instilled into us that there is only one right answer ( and most often it is the answer dictated by the teacher in the classroom). Even in Maths, most teachers advocate solving a problem in only one way. Critical thinking and rules of logic are considered upstarts. Pupils who question often in classrooms are considered to be disruptive and even subject to discipline. I sincerely hope the younger generation has moved on with this hackneyed education. Amen!

Snurp, agreed. I have friends who feel there is only ONE TRUE WAY to do something and that way is usually taught to them early on, or someone tells them about it. If there's ONE TRUE WAY, its that you must discover it yourself.

Hopefully things will change.

@snurp: Agreed.

I'm not sure if teaching style has anything to do with it. Clearly it is lack of copyright laws that promote copying.

rethink you talk like we follow all the (existing) laws in Nepal :). What I meant was our teaching makes it okay to plagiarize in the first place (dictation). Anything that is deeprooted in childhood is pretty hard to let go. Even other plagiarizers of newspapers , that we've recently heard of, don't think it is a problem of cutting/pasting or writing verbatim from other sources without giving credit to them.

You can't blame it on our teaching. Everywhere teaching is similar. You have certain facts that need to be taught. Even in US people have to memorize many things.

The copying does not exist in developed countries solely because of stern copyright laws. Even though there is copyright laws people try to copy things once in a while but they are taken to court and even fined. Absense of that legal responsibility makes people copy everything under the sun in Nepal.

 

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 लेखकलाई कार्यक्रममै चोरीको बात

 

१५ बैशाख, काठमाडौं । अन्नपूर्ण पोष्ट दैनिक सम्बद्ध पत्रकार तथा साहित्यकार अशोक सुवेदीलाई साहित्यिक चोरीको आरोप लागेको छ । प्रगतिवादी समालोचक प्रा. राजेन्द्र सुवेदी पनि चोरीलाई संरक्षण तथा प्रोत्साहनको आरोपमा मुछिएका छन् । वैशाख १५ गते पर्यटन बोर्डमा आयोजित एक कार्यक्रममा वरिष्ठ साहित्यकार कमल दीक्षितले सुवेदी द्धयमाथि यस्तो आरोप लगाएका हुन् ।

ऐतिहासिक मकै पर्वका नायक सुब्बा कृष्णलाल अधिकारीका सालासमेत रहेका कवि साम्बभक्त सुवेदी ‘मुरारि’ को ‘सुवेदी वंशावली’ नामक कृति चोरी गरेर अशोक सुवेदीले ‘सुवेदीका पुख्र्यौँली’ शीर्षक राखेर आफ्ना पिता हितप्रसाद सुवेदीका नाममा छपाएको आरोप लागेको छ । अशोक सुवेदी सम्पादित पुस्तकको भूमिका लेखेर प्रा. राजेन्द्र सुवेदीले अपराधलाई प्रोत्साहन गरेको चर्चा साहित्य वृत्तमा चल्ने गरेको भए पनि यसरी खुलेर आरोप लगाइएको यो पहिलोपटक हो । कार्यक्रममा वितरण गरिएको पुस्तक ‘साम्बभक्त सुवेदीः सृजना र सम्झना’ नामक कृतिका सम्पादक रोचक घिमिरेले त पुस्तकको आफ्नो सम्पादकीयमा फोनमार्फत् जानकारी गराउँदासमेत सुवेदी द्धयले अटेर गरी पटकपटक ती सामाग्री छाप्ने काम गरेको आरोप लगाएका छन् । कार्यक्रम स्थलमा रहेका अशोक सुवेदीलाई चोरीको वातमा मुद्दा हाल्नुपर्ने दिक्षितले बताएपछि उनी लुसुक्क बाहिरिएका थिए ।

राष्ट्रकवि माधव घिमिरेको प्रमुख आतिथ्यमा भएको कार्यक्रममा प्रा.डा. मोहनहिमांशु थापा, स्रष्टाहरु जगदिश घिमिरे, मोदनाथ प्रश्रति आदिले कविको व्यक्तित्व र उनका कृतिका बारेमा चर्चा गरेका थिए । कार्यक्रम समालोचक डा. तारानाथ शर्माको सभापतित्वमा भएको थियो ।

कवि शाम्बभक्त पन्चायतकालका नेता तथा मन्त्री नवराज सुवेदीका पिता हुन् । पिताको मृत्युको समयमा पुस्तक छाप्छु भनी दिएको वचन तीस वर्षपछि पूरा गर्न पाएकोमा सुवेदीले गर्व गरेका थिए भने केही वक्ताले यति ढीलो गरेकोमा उनको खुलेरै खिसी उडाएका थिए । जानकारहरुका अनुसार पंण्डित र गुरुका रुपमा रामेछापमा असाध्यै लोकपि्रय रहेका पितालाई नवराजले चुनाव जित्ने हतियारको रुपम प्रयोग गर्थे र चुनाव जिते लगत्तै बाचा बिर्सन्थे । जसका कारण साम्बभक्तले नवराजलाई ‘कुपुत्र’को उपमा दिएका थिए ।

सायद त्यही भएर आफ्ना रचना संरक्षण र प्रकाशनको जिम्मा २०३८ सालमा मृत्यु हुनु एक महिनाअघि साथीका छोरा रोचक घिमिरेलाई जिम्मा लगाएका थिए ।
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