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Is plagiarism legal if I change the variable names?

• Engineering-MD 4y ago
  Just for clarity, note that plagiarism and copyright infringement are distinct. If you rewrite someone’s paragraph with synonyms it’s still plagiarism but not copyright infringement especially if you don’t cite the work in question. Conversely, you could quote several paragraphs of someone else’s work in quotations with citation and it may be copyright infringement but not plagiarism. Or at least that is how I understand it.