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In Argentina, Law Against Plagiarism Plagiarized

Posted by kdawson on from the send-yourself-to-jail dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An Argentinian politician who introduced a law to send plagiarists to jail for three to eight years appears to have plagiarized the explanation of his bill directly from Wikipedia. The bulk of his explanation is three paragraphs that are taken, verbatim, from Wikipedia, without acknowledgment."

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  1. Re:Do as I say don't do as I do by Jerrry · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "Do as I say don't do as I do, some politicians outside of Argentina also have that attitude ;-)"

    In my experience, that's what all politicians do. As do the cops. They set bad examples for the rest of us.

  2. Re:I'm glad that plagiarism is not illegal. by john83 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is there really room for crediting wikipedia in a legal bill? That seems silly to me. A law isn't an artistic endeavour. It has no direct commercial value. Applying the notion of IP to it makes no sense. I would have thought that the groupthink on Slashdot would lean towards disgust at this assumption of the blanket application of IP as a concept, but perhaps schadenfreude comes first.

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    Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
  3. Plagiarizing Wikipedia? by Mr.+Gunn · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Plagiarizing Wikipedia is like singing Happy Birthday without paying royalties.