One of the things that I have always thought about was the difference between plagiarism and inspiration, and reading Lethem’s “Ecstasy of Influence” kind of gave me a understanding of what is considered as influential rather than plagiarism. From what I got, under the right contexts, doing something similar as someone else shouldn’t be looked down upon, rather its a phase for the creator, to understand someone else’s art form is the first step to understanding your own. Lethem says that by accusing others of copyright, “you attack the next generation of creators for the crime of being influenced.”