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Museum of Plagiarism

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Treehugger copies this image of Plagiarius, a museum of plagiarism. Treehugger says,

We so want to copy this wonderful idea: A museum in a converted railway building, devoted to plagiarism and knockoffs, that opened on April 1. (We first thought it an elaborate hoax) Since 1977 the Plagiarius gnome has been awarded the best plagiarized object of the year; this year to a coffee jug produced in Germany by Alfi and knocked off by a Guangzhou China company with a leaky jug named Albi. Second prize was a German knockoff of an Italian Moleskine notebook. We don't know who gets the gnome, the plagiarizer or plagiarizee.

From what I can glean from the Plagiarius award page, the award is meant as a bad thing, but I think it's pretty neat.

[via treehugger]