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- From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: advertizing and ladybirds
- Message-ID: <JIM.93Jan26160855@hunter.cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:08:55 GMT
- References: <30817@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Computer Science Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland.
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- In-reply-to: eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk's message of 26 Jan 93 14:40:05 GMT
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- In article <30817@castle.ed.ac.uk> eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods) writes:
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- Wouldn't it be nice if advertizers were to start giving credit to
- major artistic influences? Adverts could run small bylines to the
- effect that the music was Mozart's Horn Concerto #4 etc, and the
- Ariston people could acknowledge the Bulgarian (?) animation `Tango'
- --- turning what looks like plagiarism into an obvious compliment.
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- Somehow I can't see the advertising agencies going along with this.
- Their clients would be unimpressed to find out just how little
- orginal work the ad agency has done for its fat fee.
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- Jim
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