http://www.bloggernews.net/19130 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:28:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/19130#comment-70603 Chase.Hamil Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:25:04 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19130#comment-70603 While I would hesitate to call it plagiarism, there are certainly a few samples of the crime of "cut and paste" on the Blogger News Network. A fair number of contributions seem to be reprints of news or feature stories that appeared elsewhere on the Internet. While I suppose some readers appreciate having these items "called to their attention," copyright laws still prevail. Most publications allow a paragraph or so to be quoted with proper attribution, but they certainly don't condone having the entire article reproduced verbatim, even with acknowledgement. I haven't seen any warnings posted by the monitors of BNN, but when an item is submitted as "this post was written by," a lot of readers assume it was researched and written by the blogger whose name appears at the top of the piece. While I would hesitate to call it plagiarism, there are certainly a few samples of the crime of “cut and paste” on the Blogger News Network. A fair number of contributions seem to be reprints of news or feature stories that appeared elsewhere on the Internet. While I suppose some readers appreciate having these items “called to their attention,” copyright laws still prevail. Most publications allow a paragraph or so to be quoted with proper attribution, but they certainly don’t condone having the entire article reproduced verbatim, even with acknowledgement. I haven’t seen any warnings posted by the monitors of BNN, but when an item is submitted as “this post was written by,” a lot of readers assume it was researched and written by the blogger whose name appears at the top of the piece.

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