BUNK: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News.
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The Plagiarists seems calculated to infuriate everyone who watches it, but that's very much the point.
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Anyone caught rarely faces consequences: The vast majority of plagiarists keep their degrees and certainly their jobs.
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BUNK The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News By Kevin Young Illustrated.
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Novelty Song is a fast, high-flying, well-illustrated indie that will appeal to garageband impresarios and plagiarists.
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The Plagiarists is a cheeky riff on the idea that it's possible for anyone to make honest, original work.
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When he leaves hats and becomes a reporter, plagiarists and designers who are resting on their laurels are called out.
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Now in 2420, Wycoff's dealing with a bunch of dick-running plagiarists, who she claims are stealing her phallic-shaped runs.
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The wife of a presidential candidate plagiarists a speech, and a politician tries to dismiss it with a surprising knowledge of MLP quotes.
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"The Plagiarists" does skewer its characters, but where it goes from there is more genuinely bleak than what mere finger-pointing can achieve.
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Dissernet members described some plagiarists as so lazy they did not bother to change any text; they just substituted the cover page with their name as author.
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" Quotable "I have sympathy for plagiarists to some extent — because it's really hard to know what you've invented and what is someone else's invention that you've absorbed.
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In his book, "Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News," author Kevin Young documents Barnum's pleasure in the use of a good humbug.
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Now we know how the mechanism works — not just for people like Madoff or serial plagiarists that become more and more bold with their dishonesty, but for all of us.
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Next week, Mr. Young will publish "Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News," a history, biography and, very nearly, catalogue raisonné of the hoax.
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Yet while chiding extreme libertarianism, Selbourne veers dangerously close to Comstockery in his tsk-tsking of noise that "masquerades as music," gender fluidity, sperm banks, bad grammar, video plagiarists and other presumed vices.
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A social and philosophical investigation disguised as a gleefully barbed satire, "The Plagiarists," directed by Peter Parlow from a script by James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Robin Schavoir, deserves to be the summer's art house conversation starter.
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"They think China's companies are copycats, plagiarists, incapable of big innovation," he told the audience in Beijing, according to a publicly filed transcript of the event, acknowledging that further debt financing would be harder to come by.
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Over the past century-plus, the original meaning has been flipped to commend plagiarists instead of condemning them—and it's also probably helped more than one rip-off artist—or perhaps even a company selling pasta-based meal kits—justify their behavior.
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Stories about our phones, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and the rest often concern Nazis, grifters, scammers, plagiarists, the aesthetes who reject that online life, the famous, the infamous, people who are making a buck, and anyone else who pushes the logic and limits already in place.
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And if that sounds like a well-worn — and maybe pretentious — basis for a film, there's a twist: In both style and substance, The Plagiarists is recognizably ripping off and skewering a low-budget, talk-heavy strain of American independent filmmaking, featuring young creative wannabe artists and their faux-intellectual musings.
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This is an index of articles about plagiarism. It includes different articles about incidents and examples of plagiarism, but does not include links to biographies of plagiarists or alleged plagiarists.
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Nunes hired a lawyer to track down the plagiarists. In the previous publisher- dominated system, a publisher would have been liable for selling a plagiarized book, but in the world of self-publishing, there are no liabilities involved if Amazon removes the plagiarized titles. It is often difficult to catch and prosecute the plagiarists, who can masquerade using false identities.
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Plagiarists have in some cases been suspended, removed or demoted. However, no fixed route has been prescribed to monitor such activities. This has led to calls for establishment of an independent ethics body.
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Someone has been getting away with a different spin on plagiarism. It's the old scam – an unsuccessful author stealing ideas from an established source – but it's being worked differently. Now, the plagiarists are claiming that the well-known authors are stealing from them (as Wolfe puts it, "plagiarism upside down."Plot It Yourself, chapter 2).
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Jones DeRitter, "The Gypsy, The Rover, and The Wanderer: Aphra Behn's Revision of Thomas Killigrew," Restoration Vol. 10 (1986), pp. 82–92. Karen Raber, Dramatic Difference: Gender, Class, and Genre in Early Modern Closet Drama, Newark, DE, University of Delaware Press, 2002. Laura J. Rosenthal, Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early Modern England: Gender, Authorship, Literary Property, Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1996.
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After a year and a half, Zejnullahu was fired by the university steering board on 21 October 2015. Zejnullahu’s removal was reversed days later by Education Minister Arsim Bajrami, but his struggle made him a national symbol of Kosovo’s battle against nepotism and graft. Two professors, Beqir Sadikaj and Zeqir Veselaj, who had earlier been identified as plagiarists were in 2015 elected as members to the 5-member Governing Council of the UP and voted to dismiss Rector Zejnullahu.
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Sturdevant ignores the accusation until Porter's manuscript is found in Sturdevant's house. The writing and publishing industry is convinced that the manuscript was planted, but the case was settled out of court. That scenario, with minor variations, is repeated four times, with other authors and by other plagiarists. The latest complaint has been made only recently, and the target of the complaint wonders when a manuscript will show up somewhere that it wasn't the day before.
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Roman pile driver (replica) used at the construction of Caesar's Rhine bridges (55 BC) 18th-century Pile driver, from Abhandlung vom Wasserbau an Strömen, 1769 There are a number of claims to the invention of the pile driver. A mechanically sound drawing of a pile driver appeared as early as 1475 in Francesco di Giorgio Martini's treatise Trattato di Architectura.Ladislao Reti, "Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Treatise on Engineering and Its Plagiarists", Technology and Culture, Vol. 4, No. 3.
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The task initially seemed to be to show that the first fraud inspired a sequence of copycats, and the universe of suspects was limited to the complainants. But now that Wolfe has determined that one person wrote all the fraudulent manuscripts, that one person could be anyone. Wolfe meets with the joint committee to discuss the situation. A committee member suggests that one of the plagiarists be offered money, along with a guarantee of immunity, to identify the manuscripts' actual author.
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The committee concurs, and asks Wolfe to arrange for the offer to be made to Simon Jacobs. The next day, Archie goes to make the offer to Jacobs, but finds Sergeant Purley Stebbins at the Jacobs apartment: Mr. Jacobs has been murdered, stabbed to death the night before. In short order, Archie discovers two more dead plagiarists. Wolfe blames himself for not taking steps to protect Jacobs and the others, who had been made targets by the plan to pay for information.
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Given the URL or text of the original content, Copyscape returns a list of web pages that contain similar text to all or parts of this content. It also shows the matching text highlighted on the found web page. Copyscape banners can be placed on a web page to warn potential plagiarists not to steal content. Copysentry monitors the web and sends notifications by email when new copies are found, and Copyscape Premium verifies the originality of content purchased by online content publishers.
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Because ' had reached the stage a year before ', the novelty was lost and it now looked as though Hoffman and Kreutzer were the plagiarists rather than Guillard and Lesueur."' at the heart of a controversy", in the book accompanying the Van Waas recording, pp. 100–105 Reviewers of the premiere praised the music of acts 1 and 3, but criticised act 2, set entirely in Hell. They blamed the librettist for a lack of internal variety in this act, comparing it unfavourably with the depiction of the underworld in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice.
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Her success was sometimes clouded by problems with tax inspectors and alleged plagiarists. Heyer chose not to file lawsuits against the suspected literary thieves, but tried multiple ways of minimizing her tax liability. Forced to put aside the works she called her "magnum opus" (a trilogy covering the House of Lancaster) to write more commercially successful works, Heyer eventually created a limited liability company to administer the rights to her novels. She was accused several times of providing an overly large salary for herself, and in 1966 she sold the company and the rights to seventeen of her novels to Booker-McConnell.
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According to Gerhard Dannemann, an authority on the relevant legal background, the case can be persuasively made that it was, in fact, the doctoral students who were the plagiarists. A lengthy analysis of the affair appeared in the journal Laborjournal, and concluded that Dickhuth should not have been deprived of his academic qualification. According to this analysis, Dickhuth could be seen as a pawn, sacrificed to prop up the declining reputation of the University Clinic as a way to avoid budget cuts. In pursuit of that objective, however, the university had expended a seven-digit sum.
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When a woman asked him why he had made the error, Johnson, according to Boswell, replied, "Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance." In the 1930s, Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition accidentally documented, for four years, a supposed word "dord", whose only basis was a clerical error by the publisher. The first edition (1987) of the Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary contained an entry for a verb hink, which it said was conjugated hinks, hinking, hinked and which it defined as follows: "If you hink, you think hopefully and unrealistically about something." The entry is a ghost word—included by the editors to trap plagiarists.
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Sorin Cîmpeanu was appointed Minister of National Education in Ponta IV cabinet, on 17 December 2014. During his mandate, Cîmpeanu initiated the controversial Emergency Ordinance that amnestied plagiarists, allowing doctors to give up the title, given that then Prime Minister, Victor Ponta, was accused of plagiarizing his doctoral thesis. Subsequently, lawmakers voted against this ordinance. Sorin Cîmpeanu is not part of a political party, he was proposed and supported on the education portfolio in Ponta government by PC leader Daniel Constantin, he is the suspended rector of the University of Agronomy in Bucharest and suspended president of the National Council of Rectors.
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Music by Berchem continued to appear in collections well into the 17th century. Confusion of his name with other composers named "Jacquet" or "Jacques" (for example Jacquet of Mantua, Jacques Buus, and Jacquet Brumel, organist at Ferrara and son of Antoine Brumel) was as common then as now, and may have been one of the reasons he sought to have his madrigals printed in editions containing only his own works. In the preface to his 1546 publication of madrigals for five voices he specifically mentions "crows who dress up in swan's feathers" and implies that plagiarists and those who misattribute his compositions will be corrected.Atlas, p.
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During the 18th century, the plagiarists and literary thieves (pirates) would bring British novels back to America, reprint them (with the original author’s name in order to escape incrimination, but still using another author's work for their own personal gain), and yet never give the original author any compensation for their work. This system fell into place largely because the nation did not have any real individual literary identity at that point in time.Phegley, Jennifer: Literary Piracy, Nationalism, and Women Readers in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1850-1855 American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography, pages 63–90. The Ohio State University Press 2004.
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Dissernet () is a volunteer community network working to clean Russian science of plagiarism. The core activity of the community is conducting examinations of doctoral and habilitation (higher doctorate) theses defended in Russian scientific and educational institutions since the end of the 1990s, and making the results of such examinations known to as many people as possible. The community is composed of professional scientists working in various fields of science both in Russia and abroad, and also journalists, civil activists and volunteers. Launched in early 2013, the project had by 2016 identified around 5,600 suspected plagiarists — focusing on officials in government and academia, and other member the country's elite — and released reports on around 1,300 of them.
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However, this could not be revealed by mere display of skill, and must be an expression of the artist's whole moral outlook. Ruskin rejected the work of Whistler because he considered it to epitomise a reductive mechanisation of art. Ruskin's strong rejection of Classical tradition in The Stones of Venice typifies the inextricable mix of aesthetics and morality in his thought: "Pagan in its origin, proud and unholy in its revival, paralysed in its old age... an architecture invented, as it seems, to make plagiarists of its architects, slaves of its workmen, and sybarites of its inhabitants; an architecture in which intellect is idle, invention impossible, but in which all luxury is gratified and all insolence fortified."Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, iii, ch.
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"The aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content," Rupert Murdoch told the World Media Summit in Beijing, China. "If we do not take advantage of the current movement toward paid content, it will be the content creators - the people in this hall - who will pay the ultimate price and the content kleptomaniacs who triumph." Critics of the newspaper as a medium also argue that while today's newspapers may appear visually different from their predecessors a century ago, in many respects they have changed little and have failed to keep pace with changes in society. The technology revolution has meant that readers accustomed to waiting for a daily newspaper can now receive up-to-the-minute updates from Web portals, bloggers and new services such as Twitter.
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The trades were profitable, but a miscreant could use the same skills for forgery, lockpicking and fencing stolen goods. In Manchester, there was a fear of travelling plagiarists who could reveal the profitable secrets of the cotton industry to foreign rivals and seduce cotton workers to take their skills abroad. Prescott's Manchester Journal of 1774 warned: :several JEWS and OTHER FOREIGNERS have for some months past frequented the town under various pretences and some of them have procured Spinning machines, looms, dressing machines, cutting knives and other tools used in the manufactures (sic) of fustians, cotton velvets, velveteens and other Manchester goods. ... And frequent attempts have been made to entice, persuade and seduce artificers to go foreign parts out of His Majesty's dominions... (This) will be the destruction of the trade of this country, unless timely prevented.
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An extract from the Lord Berners translation in a Harvard anthology Such stories addressed themselves to various kinds of pride and had given rise to the Latin idomatic phrase esopus graculus (Aesop's jackdaw) that Erasmus recorded in his Adagia.III.vi 91 But the story has also been used to satirise literary plagiarists in Classical times. In one of his Epistles, the Roman poet Horace alludes to the Greek version of the fable when referring to the poet Celsus, who is advised not to borrow from others ‘lest, if it chance that the flock of birds should some time or other come to demand their feathers, he, like the daw stripped of his stolen colors, be exposed to ridicule.’Epistles I.3, lines 18-20 It was in this sense too that the young William Shakespeare was attacked by the elder playwright Robert Greene as ‘an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers’.
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