As a professor, my most controversial position was that I didn't care at all about plagiarism. a) they at least found some material b) it was probably better written than most of what I received c) privileging "originality" is a very bougie and culturally insensitive position
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The western tradition is pretty much built on plagiarism. So much of the work of Jerome and the other "church fathers" was just them writing down shit they'd memorized. Some of their most famous medieval work was people "glossing" the earlier work of others (much of it borrowed)
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"Plagiarism" in this culture's current sense of the term, I mean. So many others wouldn't have recognized it as such. Privileging "ownership of ideas" the way we do now is truly fascinating
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