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A License To Plagiarize, Brian L. Frye
A License To Plagiarize, Brian L. Frye
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Since time immemorial, authors have wanted to own various kinds of
exclusive rights in the works they create. Curiously, the rights authors want
to own at any particular point in time tend to reflect the nature of the market
for the works they create. The first exclusive right authors wanted was attribution.
In classical Greece, philosophers accused each other of copying
ideas without attribution. The Roman poet Martial coined the term plagiarius
to criticize other poets for passing off his poems as their own. Even
medieval Irish poets observed plagiarism norms that prohibited copying
without attribution. In all of these …