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>Disagree, the core contention is he was copying clue themes from past puzzles That isn't the "core contention" >More broadly, 1,090 Universal puzzles and 447
by sigmar 11y ago
>Disagree, the core contention is he was copying clue themes from past puzzles
That isn't the "core contention"
>More broadly, 1,090 Universal puzzles and 447 USA Today puzzles were at least a 75 percent match to an earlier puzzle in the database. (Sometimes the match is with a puzzle from the same publication.)
and though it may have been "self-plagiarizing" legally. Ethically, I have to wonder whether Parker was getting paid for the "original" crosswords that were submitted or if he was only using pseudonyms to falsely illustrate that the crosswords were original works.
- halo 11y agoThat is the core contention, the mass self-plagiarization is very much secondary in the article and is a rather different issue. The actual plagiarization of the NYT puzzles is relatively minor and the sort of thing that should be considered fair game and it's irrational that we think otherwise.