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The writer of the 1973 short story "12:01 PM" was not lying when he said Groundhog Day ripped it off, or when he went to lawyers for six months to figure out if he had a case; he spent the rest of his life convinced Groundhog Day stole from him. But the lawyers were right: he would lose, because basically the only similarity between the two stories is the existence of a time loop. "12:01 PM" is a sci-fi story where a man repeats an hour of his life due to a glitch of science; Groundhog Day is a fantasy romcom where a man repeats a day of his life until he becomes a better person with no stated cause for the loop. It would only be plagiarism in a world where you could copyright plots & own the concept of a "time loop"...and in that case there were definitely time loop stories before 1973, so "12:01 PM" would be plagiarism too. And in this world, looking at a story about a time loop & going "I should make my own, totally unique story about a time loop" is not plagiarism, either, it's inspiration (there's no evidence the creators of Groundhog Day ever saw or read "12:01 PM", but it'd be fine if they had). But it wasn't a grift; after all, he didn't sue in the end, it was someone close to his work being unable to look at it objectively. Who can blame him?

Simply put the majority of viral plagiarism cases are unfounded. Plagiarism does obviously happen, but the type of writer-suing-somebody case you see in the media usually falls apart since...it's just that pattern over and over. But usually, their anger is sincere. It's just wrong.

Balsamic vinegar is made by aging a reduced grape syrup in barrels with "mother", which is a kind of bacterial slime that develops naturally in the vinegar over time. True balsamic vinegar goes through a very particular process of aging it in a series of smaller and smaller barrels, transferring it from one barrel to the next either every year, or every few years, depending on the process, and then adding fresh syrup to the largest barrel and continuing the process. The slimy film that forms on the insides of the barrels is the mother, and due to the increased concentrations over the years, the mother in the smallest barrel is most potent, and is sometimes partially removed and used to seed new batches of vinegar, so production can be expanded. Scraping the mother from the bottom of the barrel is how you multiply the goodness, the sweetness, and the quality of your balsamic.

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