It means borrowing from one creative property to another.
Another term that is similarly used is Homage. Paying tribute to a former work by copying it.
In music there’s the term Sampling. Sampling is when a rap musician lifts an existing part of a previous record and weaves it into his song.
I have another term. STEALING.
It is not an homage to take a story or style from one show and re-use it as your own. It is not conceptual blending to rip off someone else’s jokes in your stand-up routine. Nor is it sampling to use Motown tracks in your hip hop song.
There's a term called permission. You need permission to use someone else’s material. And if you don’t receive it and use the material anyway you are liable for damages. Good luck to the defense attorney who argues to a jury on behalf of conceptual blending.
We now live in an age of spin, of Alternate Facts. But there’s one term that never seems to need a pretty euphemism:
BULLSHIT.
That’s the term that exists in my vocabulary, especially when referring to these others.
from By Ken Levine
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