The problem with lifting from press releases
Early Monday, a fake press release was released on PRWeb, causing many websites, including The Associated Press, to run an incorrect article about Google making a $400 million acquisition of… Read more »
Plagiarism claims dog this year’s Guadalajara Book Prize winner
It’s been oh, a month or two, since the last big plagiarism scandal broke — though Jonah Lehrer’s banality always seemed like more of a problem than his self-plagiarism —… Read more »
Should publishers wipe the slate clean?
In a year when so many writers’ reputations have been eviscerated by plagiarism and fabrication scandals, it’s interesting to consider the ways these mistakes are treated by publishers, now that ebooks,… Read more »
How journalists and press releases rewrite science
The Jonah Lehrer debacle needs no further comment here, but one interesting feature of Charles Seife’s deconstruction and evisceration of Lehrer’s Wired blog on Slate was what he called “press-release plagiarism.” Seife… Read more »
Like Jonah Lehrer in leather pants
As reported in Billboard, Rolling Stone, BoingBoing and elsewhere, venerable rock group Def Leppard are returning to the studio to re-record many of their earlier classics note for note. The… 1 / Read more »
Smut, Amazon, and the biggest plagiarism problem of them all
Amazon’s publishing services have been touted for how easy they are to use. Much has been made of the story about writers bringing to market works while not having to… 2 / Read more »
“Delusional” St. Martin’s says passages and scenes from 1956 novel that reappeared in Lenore Hart’s new novel are not, er, plagiarised
St. Martin’s Press has announced that, despite the fact that much of the language of her book and several concocted scenes first appeared verbatim in someone else’s book, Lenore Hart… 5 / Read more »
Poll: Should plagiarist Quentin Rowan write a book about his crimes?
Last week, Quentin Rowan, the disgraced serial plagiarist whose spy novel Assassin of Secrets proved to be massively plagiarized from dozens of other sources, wrote an essay at The Fix comparing… 4 / Read more »
Lenore Hart shows how not to respond to plagiarism charges
In the face of overwhelming evidence, novelist Lenore Hart has vociferously denied charges that she plagiarized large parts of her historical novel about Edgar Allan Poe’s wife, The Raven’s Bride… 1 / Read more »
Another stupefyingly ballsy case of plagiarism elicits calls for another book to be withdrawn
Spy novelist Jeremy Duns has been showing up on lots of blogs lately — including ours — for his fascinating posts about plagiarist QR Markham/Quentin Rowan. Of course, as he… 1 / Read more »