"The New Plagiarism" is the plague of the sense of entitlement. If you are able to duplicate someone else's work, does it become yours? Schools teach us no; we

"The New Plagiarism" is the plague of the sense of entitlement. If you are able to duplicate someone else's work, does it become yours? Schools teach us no; we could be expelled. Fair enough. If you make minor edits to someone else's work, does it become yours? Apparently so. The author's experience tells us that we can certainly make the claim that the piece is "public", and that annecdotes were "borrowed", but only borrowed as much from the original as it borrowed from everyone else. We live in a society where the gatherer becomes the discoverer, the sponsor becomes the artist, and the investors become the founders. If they've had a finger in that pie, it's their pie. Is this not another sign of our society's bloated sense of entitlement and ingratitude?