September 15, 2006

Copy This

By CAROLYN FOSTER SEGAL

Not all plagiarists achieve fame and in-depth coverage by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Chronicle; most are students toiling in relative obscurity, cutting and pasting or lifting in its entirety the work of others. Intellectual-property rights in the 21st century may indeed be pre-empted by a return to the centuries-earlier, precopyright practice of "If I find a poem nailed to the church door, I can simply change the names and make it mine." In place of the church door,

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