“Plagiarism” is an ugly word. In its primary or core meaning, it refers to deliberately passing off, as your own, words that you know were written by someone else. In this primary meaning, plagiarism ...

In announcing his resignation as president of Hamilton College last fall, Eugene Tobin apologized for a number of instances in which he had used plagiarized material in speeches he had delivered in ...

No matter how good your intentions, you could well be a plagiarist. Every semester, Southern Methodist University Professor Alan S. Brown shows his psychology students how simple it is to become one.

When professors send students’ papers to a database, are copyrights violated? When electronic tools to ferret out student plagiarism hit the market a few years ago, colleges saw them as easy-to-use ...

Following The Savant being pulled at the last moment, now it's looking unlikely that we'll get to see The Hunt either.

In December 2022, Autumn Smith received a photo of what looked like her artwork — a self-portrait with her grandmother inspired by a memory of the day her grandmother gave her a traditional name — ...

Cutting corners: People are reacting to ChatGPT's potential for abuse, developing new tools to catch cheaters and plagiarized material. A student has developed a tool that can potentially (and quickly ...

I have written 14 novels. Five are currently in print, and a sixth, “Falling,” is slated for publication soon. Something I have been recently asking myself is, what if I engaged artificial ...

In October 2024, Bungie was sued for copyright infringement by a fantasy author called Kelsey Martineau. He alleged that Destiny 2‘s opening campaign had heavily lifted from his own work that he’d ...

Look at this shot of Lady Gaga performing in Miami on New Year's Eve. Know what her fluorescent-yellow hair totally reminds me of? Think back to a conversation we had here on the blog a while back ...