Many "high profile" accusations of plagiarism are politically motivated, and a recent post on Buzzfeed falls in this category.Rand Paul’s Chief Strategist Was Writer Behind Senator’s Plagiarism.One piece of text caught the eye of IPBiz:“He [Rand Paul] thought the evidence of his supposed lapse in ethics was outrageously thin and nitpicky. He’d been recapping movie plots in these speeches, not reciting Tolstoy and calling the words his own. He felt certain that if he could just explain this in a neutral setting, his attackers’ petty animus and partisanship would be laid bare.”This brings up the difference between plagiarism and violations of federal laws in copyright and trademark.IPBiz has written about the Dastar case on several occasions. From IPBiz on November 28, 2005 (nearly exactly 10 years ago; "Remembering Dastar"):Dastar suggests that material in the public domain may be copied without proper attribution and…
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