The amount of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace
Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace has now reported to have passed 25,000 apps by one site tracking comings and goings within it. (source: WindowsPhoneAppslist, July 2011)
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I once worked with am ad guy on a movie project. He had a lot of ideas (he was producing, the movie a low-low budget effort, and he was slumming), but almost all of the ideas were borrowed. My partners and I suggested to him that we shouldn't steal from earlier movies (we were more naive than he, later experience has proven) and his response was, "In advertising, everybody steals. It's flattering!" We then changed tactics and started calling his borrowed ideas clichéd. That worked.
I guess it depends on how you look at it — and whether you love, hate, or tolerate Apple — but the truth is, Marclay's piece was a rip-off of a number of other clip jobs. One, as I recall, was a sixty-second review of all of the great movies up until that year, 1984 or '85, if memory serves. It was followed by (and preceded by, as far as I know) dozens of other similar movie clip shorts. Maybe Apple, or its ad agency, stole the piece. Or maybe someone said, "Hey, remember that Oscar piece this/last/some other year?" and someone else said, "Hey, some guy did something just like that. Let's see if we can get the rights." And then Legal said, "Rights? RIGHTS? We don't got to get no stinkin' rights — Marclay don't own the stinkin' rights 'cause he ripped it off from somebody else." And so it goes.
Is anyone clean here?
The answer is no.