IB 300 Clone

A little late, but what is copyright anyway?
Where is the line between plagiarism and parody?

This is Jay's IB 300 video.
He made this about a month ago, gathering footage from different students at Rickards IB. When it was uploaded, it became huge. On Facebook, it drew over a hundred comments by IBers around the world. Whenever I have some huge paper due the next day drowning me in self-pity and regret, I watch it to remind me why I stay at Rickards. It's really the people that make the program worth it. (Because, screw IB elitism, some colleges don't care.)


And this is the British clone. Apparently we were not meant to have seen it, it was made for their "King's College High Comedy Night" or something of that nature and was only uploaded because of it's positive reception.


I don't like it. Or maybe I just don't like rich schools. Ours has that comfy Rickards ghetto feel and the Brit one is like "Hey bitches, look at our pretty all-boys school and our uniforms, ooh we have actual exam rooms, not auditoriums and wooden boards for testing..." Plus they had that "A new age has begun, an age of internationalism..." Lol, there's only white British guys in the whole video. Not that I'm complaining.

Jay's (Ibsalot) video was obviously a parody to 300, but the King's College guys made it look like they had thought of the idea themselves. The script is basically the same. I think they should have at least credited Jay for his work instead of saying "If anything you can feel proud that your own video has had an influence on the writers, which it does clearly seem to have" (pflocust). Um, really? If you change 5 words out of the whole script, that's plagiarism, not influence.

But hey, any hype is helpful, right?



EDIT: They took down their vid... I'm a litle sad. I liked the discussion/flamewar.