At some point, most (all?) of us have "borrowed" code from the interwebs to use in our own code and that seems fine. But is copy-pasting blocks of code from another blog and publishing it in one's own blog considered as plagerism? I see this fairly often. Thoughts?
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just randomly tagging some peeps that might have an opinion on this...
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OK, so there's two different things going on here. 1. Copy-pasting SNIPPETS is usually fine because 2 lines of code or like how write a Python list comprehension for the thing at hand is not really "intellectual property". That's what snippet means usually.
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Totally busted!


"Of all the lines of code that Oracle had tested — 15 million in total — these were the only ones that were “literally” copied. Every keystroke, a perfect duplicate."1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
Long story short: "the jury found on May 7, 2012, that Google had infringed on the copyright related to the code, SSO, and documentation of the APIs as well as the rangeCheck function, but were deadlocked on whether these uses fell within fair use." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc ….
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