"Plagiarism" usually refers to copying in an academic setting (you download an essay and submit as your own; you cut-and-paste together a journal article from o

"Plagiarism" usually refers to copying in an academic setting (you download an essay and submit as your own; you cut-and-paste together a journal article from other papers and submit it as your own), rather than copyright infringement. In fact, usually the objection is not the copying per se but the passing it off as your own; ie the lack of attribution. Skimming the page, they've assumed their audience already knows what they mean. I know of a couple of academics interested in this work; and I believe there's quite a large audience. You can imagine that teachers and lectures would like to be able to automatically check for plagiarism (esp hard with the internet when it could be copied from anyone in the world, not just in the one classroom)