Crazy Coincidence, Plagiarism, Or An Obvious Idea For An Electric Car Ad?
from the seems-possible dept
David points us to this fantastic post by Ken Segall, entitled Creativity has many fathers, and analyzing the story of two car commercials that seem quite similar. The first, for the Nissan LEAF, is below:Segall digs up the possible reason why, in the form of one more ad... for the Mitsubishi i-Miev. This commercial came out way before the other two:
Perhaps the reality is that this idea was just so obvious that three different ad agencies came up with it. It's not hard to see how a brainstorming session might come up with exactly this concept pretty easily. Or perhaps there really was some copying. But, in the end, does it really matter? As Segall notes about all three ads, "Wow, what a fantastic concept."
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Filed Under: cars, commercials, electric vehicles, ideas
Companies: mitsubishi, nissan, renault
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This kind of thing goes on forever
"Only the other week a reviewer said that a fairy tale by my friend roger Lancelyn Green was influenced by fairy tales of mine. Nothing could be more probable. I have an imaginary country with a beneficent lion in it: Green, one with a beneficent tiger. Green and I can be proved to read one another’s works; to be indeed in various ways closely associated. The case for an affiliation is far stronger than many which we accept as conclusive when dead authors are concerned. But it’s all untrue nevertheless. I know the genesis of that Tiger and that Lion and they are quite independent."
In other words these coincedences happen all the time!
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maybe they read the same small-town paper
Remember when Derren Brown got a team of the most creative and original ad men in London to come up with a series of concept sketches for an ad campaign-- that was exactly like what he'd placed in a sealed envelope beforehand?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyQjr1YL0zg
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blender
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Nissan and Renault are part of the same company
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Pretty sure I discussed that in the post and why that's not true.
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Need text links
Thanx,
--Bob.
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Renault ZE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKg-LPOXIMs
Mitsubishi i-Miev: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1FWJu_Co7Q
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Duh...
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Ask anybody from the 1800's to list kitchen utensils and you will get one list, now ask people today to list kitchen utensils and they will list another list, but chances are the people in the same era will have more chances of having the same things listed.
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When I am philosopher king, understanding of thermodynamics will be mandatory.
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Would you be able to feed electricity to your gas tank?
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http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-japanese-scientists-explore-electric-roads.html
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I'm thinking they were copied
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http://www.robotshop.com/ca/dasa-robot-genibo-robot-dog-1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik i/IDog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_dog
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reading things helps
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Boss: listen up, we got a deal for an electric car commercial. Go brainstorm for 30 minutes.
Staff: electric cars, eh? I saw that cool idea on youtube/local programming. It goes like this...
Boss: awesome idea. get to work.
It's entirely plausible that all three agencies ripped off the same idea. After all, it's a pretty good one. And since the original source was probably rather obscure, nobody cries foul play.
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Maybe they all ripped off stempunk art, maybe they all ripped off Wild Wild West.
http://steampunkworkshop.com/bus1.shtml
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where ad campaigns come from
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