Patent Law

UFlorida prof admits plagiarism

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

A more honorable response than that from SIU president Poshard, who brought us inadvertent plagiarism.

***Separately, the Harvard Crimson writes about anti-plagiarism software for JOURNALS -->

Despite the popularity of anti-plagiarism programs used on student work in college campuses, such programs are rather rare in academic publications. Many journals simply rely on experts to manually catch copied work during peer-review sessions.

?In days before electronic copies of articles, [peer reviews] were all we could rely on,? said Stuart M. Shieber ?81, a professor of computer science and a co-director of Harvard Law School?s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. ?Now that we have computer tools, we don?t need to rely on just peer reviews.?

IPBiz suspects there might be great difficulty in such an approach, as applied to law reviews, because whole law review articles would be found to be little more than a catenation of text from the work of others.

Full post as published by IPBiz on April 26, 2008 (boomark / email).