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Plagiarism has more of a claim to being morally wrong than copyright violation, I would say. The notion of copyright only arose a few centuries ago, and even to
by Mediterraneo10 7y ago
Plagiarism has more of a claim to being morally wrong than copyright violation, I would say. The notion of copyright only arose a few centuries ago, and even today a significant part of the world doesn’t really get the concept deep down. But when it comes to plagiarism, we have attestations even from antiquity (Martial, for instance) of creators complaining about their work being passed off as that of someone else.
- goto11 7y agoCopyright only became an issue with the printing press since no author could make a living from publishing before that. Before commercial publishing basically all authors where either independently wealthy or clergy, or they were hired by the rich or powerful.