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Copying one person is theft; copying everyone is called research.

means The act of taking someone else's words, ideas, or work and passing them off as your own.

from From Latin plagiarius, meaning kidnapper or abductor — originally someone who stole another person's slave or child. The Roman poet Martial griped that a rival was 'kidnapping' his verses by reciting them as his own, stretching the word from literal man-stealing to the theft of words. By the 1600s, English had borrowed it fully into the literary sense we use now — stealing not a person, but a person's work.

origin
latin plagiarius means kidnapper
self-plagiarism
you can steal from yourself too
detection
turnitin flags rhythm, not just words
irony
most plagiarism tools are themselves trained on stolen text
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