> >
> > >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...
> >
> > This is known in the trade as repurposing.
> >
>
>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.
>
>
He fell, mightily, and his armor clattered upon him.
(I didn't write that.)
jks
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