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Topic:  Plagiarism


 
 
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Tags: work, leadership, edu, html, plagiarism, malcolm, tale, gladwell, kouzes, posner, Malcolm Gladwell, Yorker Archive, Constance, Fanny Mann
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In ``Something Borrowed ' social science journalist Malcolm Gladwell (2004 ) and author of pop sociology tomes like Blink and The Tipping
Point , wrestles with the notion of plagiarism . Gladwell 's confrontation
with the issue starts with a British playwright who plagiarizes not only
the autobiography of a psychiatrist as material for her psycho-drama
stage play , but a profile he wrote of said psychiatrist in the New
Yorker .
Gladwell (2004 ) argues that , although plagiarism is founded on the
simple notion that stealing the words of others is a transgression
against ethics , the increasingly obsessive fixation towards
strengthening copyright law and court decisions favoring protectionist
rulings is an alarming sign that society ceases to evaluate such charges
in a qualitative manner . His attempts to re-frame conceptions of
plagiarism lie on the side of creative culture its reliance on preceding
creative works .
Having found that entire passages were lifted from his New Yorker
piece , Gladwell (2004 ) recounts how he raised his concerns with the
playwright , Bryony Lavery , noting that although he was happy to inspire
her work , he took offense at being quoted without approval . However ,
Gladwell expresses second doubts about a hard line conception of
plagiarism .
Gladwell (2004 ) further emphasizes this doubt by pointing out how
`copying ' serves to further a culture of creativity , as made evident in
the history of popular music . The Beastie Boys sampled a six second
flute sequence from jazz musician James Newton , Led Zeppelin taps into
the blues to enrich their rock artistry and how Barry Manilow 's work
informs the Wham ! holiday classic , ``Last Christmas '
Gladwell argues that what matters more than artists and writers
appropriating the works of others is the matter of how they appropriate .
``Old words in the service of a new idea aren 't the problem . What
inhibits creativity is new words in the service of an old idea (Gladwell , 2004 ) He concludes that the problem with plagiarism
discussions is that they have become extremist in nature , focused mostly
on people copying than why they copy .
However , Judge Richard Posner , a pragmatically oriented legal thinker
who sits on the Court of Appeals is renowned for his clarity of legal
theorizing . Posner shares the same fundamental skepticism regarding
outspoken cries against plagiarism , and as such , chooses to examine it
from a legal perspective .
In a piece for the Boston-based magazine The Atlantic , entitled ``On
Plagiarism ' Posner (2002 ) explores the spaces in which `copyright
infringers , `plagiarists ' and acknowledged unacknowledged forms of
copying intersect and contradict to give rise to a phenomenological
ethics of copying .
Posner (2002 ) differentiates plagiarists from copyright infringers by
noting that copyright infringement is an act that carries legal and
commercial connotations , while the former is an ethical transgression .
As such , he defines plagiarism as the unacknowledged copying of other
people 's work , copyrighted or uncopyrighted , but like Gladwell , he
points out that many examples exist in which plagiarism served necessary
to great art such as the writings of Shakespeare and the...

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