Pop music has already been sold, heard and then imitated for resale.
The so-called théâtre d'amour that Porto-Riche innovated was highly influential and was much imitated for some years.
Their own painfully polysyllabic style, which came to be known as the "aureate" style, was widely imitated for more than a century.
The U.S. had its own terrible legacy of legalized racism in the form of the Jim Crow laws, which Hitler imitated for his own purposes.
The early work of uncompromising modernism which brought together different strands of the Modern movement has been much imitated for its bravura.
The eclogue, along with other pastoral forms, was revived during the Renaissance by the Italians Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Battista Spagnoli (Mantuanas), whose neo-Latin Eclogues (1498) were read and imitated for more than a century.
His Euvres en rime (1573; "Works in Rhyme") reveal great erudition: Greek (especially Alexandrian), Latin, neo-Latin, and Italian models are imitated for mythological poems, eclogues, epigrams, and sonnets.
Despite keeping a low profile, the band, which was formed a dozen years ago at the Rhode Island School of Design, has been much imitated for its high-energy approach to murky guitar rock.
Capote's black and white ball was a party as performance art; it has been a reference point for glossy magazines ever since, and frequently imitated (for example, by Sean Puffy CombsbSean Puffy Combs
It pioneered a popular innovation with its drum section, in which the drumline puts on its own dynamic mini-show, and became widely imitated for its outgoing, high-stepping style.
Mr. Levine had unusual insight because he and Mr. Russert had worked for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the New York Democrat who demanded that his staff be fully aware of all important articles that day by dawn and whom Mr. Russert occasionally imitated for friends.
