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I still don't see how this is a crime though, I mean sure, he has a sense of inspiration and borrows sentences and phrases from somewhere. But, that doesn't mea
by tussa 3y ago
I still don't see how this is a crime though, I mean sure, he has a sense of inspiration and borrows sentences and phrases from somewhere. But, that doesn't mean the entire plots of his books, or the primary reason they sell is because of him stealing a few sentences from others.
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- spuz 3y agoThere are two questions at play here: 1. How much of other people's work did Mark Dawson plagiarise in each of his books? 2. How much of other people's work would someone need to plagiarise before you consider it to be unethical? We can't answer 1. just yet, but if you are going to make a judgement about him here, at least try to give your answer for 2. The first question is a question of fact and the second question is a question of subjectivity so it's important to separate them out.
- matsemann 3y ago3. How many books have he really sold / people downloaded? Or is it all just a ruse to sell his courses?
- j4yav 3y agoI guess it would be the point where it reaches copyright infringement, since plagiarism isn’t really a thing as far as I know outside of academia.
- SamoyedFurFluff 3y agoGenuinely asking: so if he basically copied the entirety of a Stephen king novel except he switched subject and verb ordering for all of the sentences, you don’t consider it at all unethical?
- j4yav 3y agoThat would be copyright infringement. What’s with this trend of saying ‘genuinely asking’ that always seems to be followed by putting words in someone’s mouth? It’s the new less subtle version of ‘it sounds like you’re saying’.
- ghaff 3y agoIt can be a thing but certainly a less serious thing than in academia. And what's presented here seems kind of scuzzy but probably isn't causing a lot of genuine harm.