......began Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address.Link to msnbc.c0m story, "Steal this story? Beware Net’s plagiarism ‘cops: Increasing number of sites are on the lookout for stolen words, phrases".
Excerpt: They scour the Web in search of stolen phrases, dig through documents looking for evidence of looting. They can’t issue citations, but they can certainly let you know if you’ve failed to include one.
Yes, the plagiarism police are on the job.
The practice of copying, imitating or blatantly stealing the original work and/or ideas of others is, to borrow a phrase, as popular as sliced bread, according to statistics compiled by Plagiarism.org. In fact, in a study of 4,500 high school students and 1,800 college students, more than half admitted to copying work from the Web without proper attribution.
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