Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.