Thread: Isn't that a form of plagiarism?
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Old 01-03-2008, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by lisa View Post
I think as long as you put the content in your own words and it's significantly re-worded then there's no need to cite the source. Now of course if people are taking excerpts and full paragraphs from other articles then by right, yes, you should always cite the source. But if you have an article with a lot of the same info as someone else's yet it's re-worded most people never cite. Not saying it's right, but they generally don't.
Hmmm!!! Rewording may take care of copyright violation. But plagiarism and copyright violation is different isn't it? If that's the case, copyscape won't take care of such violations or will it? What I mean is, if somebody takes my thoughts or research and changes it totally by rewording it, will copyscape detect it?

If just rewording is enough, then people can even reword an article obtained from article directories like ezinearticles.com and make it their own isn't it? In that case, what is the difference between PLR articles and articles from article directories?
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