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Originally Posted by HarryT
Reading this it makes it sound as if plagiarism is a significant issue in publishing. I know there's been the occasional well-publicised case, but it is REALLY a widespread problem?
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Plagiarism is something that seems to concern a lot of people -- though whether it is, or has ever been, a significant issue for new authors I do not know. I doubt it.
There is potential for ideas to be "borrowed" (a separate issue), and some people get concerned about this -- but as I noted in my previous post, copyright doesn't help you here anyway. Such borrowing of ideas is very widespread (witness all the fan-fiction out there), but does it happen very often that the original creator of the idea loses out? I don't know, and this is even harder to prove, since there can be no case to bring before a court.