Wired editor Chris Anderson has been caught plagiarizing from Wikipedia for his new book: Free: The Future of a Radical Price. The book is sold for $26.99. This violates the copyright license governing Wikipedia. Seems quite ironic, isn’t it?
Anderson responded with “this is my screwup… I feel terrible about it.”, and promised [...]
J.K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter series, accuses a Chinese publishing house of plagiarism in the forthcoming children’s novel “The Adventurous Prince”. According to the source, the publishing house says it is confident that novel is original and is willing to defend the book. The PR of the publisher also states that they [...]
A few sources imply that a new polygraph software developed in China will be adopted in some Chinese institutions of higher education to prevent the prevailing wave of plagiarism. This mechanism of this application is to simply compare the subject under investigation with a large collection of literatures in the established database, and check [...]
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