Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Brad DeLong wrote:
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> >From my perspective, the really scary thing is self-plagiarism:
> >writing a paragraph, looking at it, and then thinking that it is
> >remarkably similar to a paragraph I wrote last year...
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> This is known in the trade as repurposing.
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You are writing a commentary on the _Iliad_ maybe? "Repurpose" might be a useful bit of jargon for Homer scholars to adopt. After all, without such reuse the poem would have come into existence. Lucky they didn't have IP rules in those days.
:-)
Carrol