If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.
Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.
Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.
When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.