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Perhaps UK law is different, but presumably this is just something that might make you unpopular among other authors and literary critics, not a civil or criminal matter.
Related: the Norwegian press is now examining the theses of Norwegian ministers and politicians after a Twitter/x user found plagiarism in the Master's thesis of the Minister of Science - she had to go on the hour and may lose her degree. Other ministers are now being scrutinized So if any of you are journalists - this may be a way to get new scoops!
What strikes me from the examples in the OP is that this method of plagiarism doesn’t seem very easy. How would you produce this kind of thing? Eg maybe you read a lot and collect a large number of flowery phrases to use over time or maybe you just pinch phrases you like from whatever you read today. I guess I usually associate plagiarism with less effort than seems to have been required here.
Originality is the art of hiding your sources, which has become utterly impossible nowadays with the search engines.
If he had studied after the 2010s, he would have paraphrased a bit more to confuse google
Whoa, that's thorough. Damning, easily replicable, overwhelming evidence that this guy is indeed a fraud. > He runs the Self Publishing Formula course and podcast, he talks at the 20BooksTo50K conference in Vegas, and he’s part of a new initiative called Fuse Publishing. He’s a pretty big deal in self-publishing, so what he does reflects on self-publishing as a whole. Like instagram "buy my course to learn how I got…
All the pulp greats are. Tarantino just embraced this and lifted it, p-adic style, to art. Good artists borrow, you know the rest la hahaha :)
wikipedia articla here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dawson_(writer)
The scumbaggery is endemic, not isolated to creative repurposing of other people's sentences!
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Oh these guys are so exhausting. My favorite was Grant Cardone — the real estate mogul who’s said he’d be ashamed if he made 400k a year. All of them and his ilk peddling this you can get rich fast stuff are disgusting.
This isn’t one of those get-rich-quick schemes. But guess what? I did! (An old TV ad that is etched into my memory)
(2023)
I’ve never understood why people on Hacker News feel the need to make these year comments? Particularly in cases like this where it adds nothing at all to the conversation. It has the air of indicating that the content is potentially outdated, but the post is quite little less than a month old. If the content was a couple days newer would there be value in commenting “(2024)”? Beyond that, everything on that page has…
wikipedia articla here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dawson_(writer)
I have really never understood how you can fall for people with how to get rich guides. Just do your own thing. Dont look at others too much. Rich wont make you happy anyway.