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Monday, October 22, 2001
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/171297.html Net Could Forge Era Of Guiltless Plagiarism - Researcher By Kevin Featherly, Newsbytes New notions formed by the ease of copying digital content threaten over time to plunge creative people - particularly writers - into a plagiaristic morass that they might not even recognize is wrong. So says Naomi Baron, a professor of linguistics at American University in Washington, D.C., who presented her ideas during a panel on intellectual property during the Internet Research 2.0 conference last week, held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Baron presented views based on her own research. In particular, the professor told an audience mainly comprising other academics, she worries that some teachers - deluged by assignment papers that are little more than forgeries of other people's writing - are beginning themselves to see digitally induced plagiarism as simply a sign of the times. If so, they will fail to discourage it, Baron said. Or worse, they will actively encourage it....
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