One big reason has been the shameless copycatting of every good idea something television always does.

"You see very rapid copycatting," he added.

In the sound-like-Brown genre the stakes are high, the scruples are absent and the copycatting is out of control.

And while many groups say that labels remain one of the most cost-effective ways to raise money, a few worry that the copycatting is resulting in diminishing returns.

But there's an intelligent calm to Mr. Waters's best work; Mr. Grow's film is all-surface copycatting, weirdness for the shock value alone.

If "Trading Spouses" maintains its ratings, ABC faces the tough task of fighting the impression, when "Wife Swap" starts, that it is the network doing the copycatting.

Critic Steve Huey of Allmusic writes that the album's influence "was felt more in spirit than in direct copycatting, as a catalyst rather than a literal musical starting point.

Or he could just dump the iPhone for something else and enjoy some INNOVATIVE features instead of blatant copycatting from the tech industry's newest largest hypocrite.

But as some increased violence has crept into network shows, partly because viewers have become accustomed to such scenes on cable, the result has been unnecessary gore at best and dreadful copycatting at worst.

In 2005, Menu published "Plates-bandes", a diatribe against the co-optation and wholesale copycatting of the indie, avant-garde, experimental, or alternative comics aesthetic by France's mainstream comic book publishers looking to corner what had suddenly become a lucrative market.

The France of Tocqueville and the America of the Lost Generation, both literary nations convinced of their special link to the Universal, cannot let this sinister copycatting, in which the only stakes are the grand prize for stupidity, continue.

But the complaints of creative copycatting from the makers of "The Way Things Go," which were aimed at Honda Motor and its agency, Wieden & Kennedy, did not prevent "Cog" from winning more than a score of other awards for creativity.

Indeed, rap, the MC performance, was still then a phonetic repetition, a copycatting of either American rappers or, with Hip Hop booming in France in the 1980s, of French hip hop artists such as Assassin, NTM, IAM or Mc Solaar.