> I'm not referring to law, only common sense and what actually happens in the real world. Actually, you are. Talking about plagiarizing and being fined and

> I'm not referring to law, only common sense and what actually happens in the real world. Actually, you are. Talking about plagiarizing and being fined and trying to use legal arguments, and then content you aren't referring to the law? > How is using someone else's image and giving them appropriate attribution any different than retweeting what they say? By using Twitter, you give explicitly permission to retweet. > Quoting them in a blog post? If someone says something, you are free to quote them. > If they post the image in a public forum (the internet) it's the same as words said in public. No, it's not. It's explicitly not because the internet is not the same thing as a public forum. > Should journalists that plagiarise words be fined a million dollars? I don't know, maybe. It depends on to what degree the plagiarizing occurred. But you can't say maybe and follow it up with the edit that you did.