Edition - Plagiarism-"Respectable" Literary Thieves - New York Weekly edition
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New York Weekly
v. 20 no. 47 (page 8)
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Plagiarism-"Respectable" Literary Thieves
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Weaver, John H.
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October 12, 1865
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When a writer steals the words or the sentences of another, and attempts to palm them off upon the public as his own, he may not be liable to arrest, trial and imprisonment therefor, but he at once becomes as guilty of theft (literary theft) as he who purloins from his neighbor's hen-roost. |