> > If I take a bunch of sonnets by Dryden, Shakespeare, Donne,
> Owen, and
> > others, and publish them in a chapbook, under my name, as if I were
> > the poet, I have committed plagiarism. Really stupid plagiarism.
> > Really, spectacularly stupid plagiarism. But I have done nothing
> > illegal.
>
> Well, not quite. Passing off and fraud are illegal so you may have
> done something illegal. But you haven't violated copyright law.
Where's the "passing off"?
What's the fraud? Received on Wed Sep 20 2006 - 21:05:30 GMT
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