FW: Corpora: History of plagiarism

From: Christopher Bader (cbader@firespout.com)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 15:41:28 MET

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    From: Daniel Ridings [mailto:daniel_ridings@yahoo.se]
    Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 8:20 AM
    To: Christopher Bader
    Subject: RE: Corpora: History of plagiarism

    > A "famous" example of true plagiarism is Samuel Taylor
    > Coleridge's
    > translations
    > of German philosophers and critics that he presented as
    > his own writing.

    Oh no, goes much further back than that (try Virgil).

    Auerbach, Mimesis (book title) will give you good insight
    into this.

    E. Stemplinger, ... forget the title now ... it's in my
    dissertation, which I've also forgotten.

    To copy another literary author was the epitomy of
    recognition. The other was so good that one found their
    works to be a challenge ... to try and do it better.

    It doesn't become a plagiarism until modern times (like the
    1800's).

    Daniel Ridings

    > Christopher Bader
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    > From: Aisha.Saidi@dictaphone.com
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    > Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 7:10 AM
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    > Subject: Re: Corpora: History of plagiarism
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    > The most famous case I can think of is Shakespeare, who
    > is said to have
    > plagiarized freely from the works of other authors. His
    > play, Othello, for
    > example, is drawn from a story by the 16th century
    > author, Giraldi Cinthio.
    > Plagiarism wasn't always considered a bad thing, and
    > today it is still
    > accepted as a worthy practice for students learning to
    > write.
    >
    > See Alexander Lindey, Plagiarism and Originality 1952 for
    > an interesting
    > history.
    >
    > Aisha Saidi
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    > "Paul Clough"
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    > 11/07/01 05:07
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    > AM
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    > Dear All,
    >
    > I would like to compile a short report regarding the
    > history of plagiarism
    > detection and plagiarism studies in general. Does anyone
    > have examples of
    > "famous" plagiarism cases or know of work investigating
    > plagiarism
    > throughout the ages. For example has the increase of
    > information in
    > electronic form, the development of word processors or
    > access to the
    > Internet increased the number of plagiarism cases?
    >
    > I have compiled a report discussing plagiarism detection
    > in both software
    > and free text. This can be found in HTML form at:
    >
    http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~cloughie/plagiarism/HTML_Version/index.html
    > and
    > PDF format at:
    > http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~cloughie/papers/Plagiarism.pdf
    >
    > I am currently compiling a website detailing plagiarism
    > detection
    > strategies, including references, pointers to commerical
    > plagiarism
    > detection software and some home-produced software for
    > this interesting
    > topic.
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Paul.
    >
    >
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