Well the technical definition of plagerism is taking something that someone else created and calling it your own, however, you could not just put a dot over the nike symbol and call it your own. This is because a court will consider this plagerising due ot the fact that this new symbol could be easily mistaken for the nike symbol.
I read that thread on accidental plagerism in the off topic forum Here's the link if anyone wants to look, it's a very good point.
http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/Accide...rism-t1433.html
So what I think chad was getting at is that while of course you didn't take a classical composer's piece and called it your own, you accidentally made it similar enough to have it be mistaken for one of their pieces, just like the nike symbol
P.S. I don't spell my name with an x, that is sooo hokey!
