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The reason they're not accusing them of copyright infringement is presumably that a few sentences allegedly lifted with modifications from other books won't ris
by avar 3y ago
The reason they're not accusing them of copyright infringement is presumably that a few sentences allegedly lifted with modifications from other books won't rise to that level.
Perhaps UK law is different, but presumably this is just something that might make you unpopular among other authors and literary critics, not a civil or criminal matter.
- rerdavies 3y agoPlagiarism isn't illegal. Copyright infringement is. My guess: the award you get when somebody paraphrases your sentence doesn't cover the cost of litigation.
- hgomersall 3y agoIf this is done in the UK, I'd be very wary of receiving a libel lawsuit. Saying someone is a serial plagiarist is a damning accusation to an author, and examples I read (and TBH I got bored after the first 5 or 6) were rather tenuous: turns of phrase or even just a common adjective-noun pair.