Something borrowed: The roots of the 'new' plagiarism
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May 28, 2010 | When teenage German novelist Helene Hegemann, whose debut novel has
become a runaway bestseller in Germany, was accused of plagiarizing
parts of her story, she defended her work by saying that she’d
repackaged the “borrowed” content into another form, much like a band
or musical artist might sample (i.e., incorporate) the music of another
musical artist into a song. The story exploded in the European media
after a German blogger accused Hegemann of improperly lifting parts of
her novel, Axolotl Roadkill, wholesale from another blogger’s content. |
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