Passage 2
Words belong to the person who wrote them. There are few simpler ethical notions than this, particularly as society directs more and more energy toward the creation of intellectual property. In the past 30 years, copyright laws have been strengthened, fighting piracy has become an obsession with Hollywood, and, in the worlds of academia and publishing, plagiarism has gone from being bad literary manners to something close to a felony. When a noted historian was recently found to have lifted passages from other historians, she was asked to resign form the board of the Pulitzer Prize committee. And why not? If she had robbed a bank, she would have been fired the next day.
9. Both passages discuss which of the following?
Reactions to plagiarism committed by scholars
An increase in plagiarism by college professors
The impact that academic fraud can have on the communication of scholarly ideas
A major change in copyright laws that occurred within the past three decades
Recent and highly publicized cases of plagiarism
10. The author would likely argue that the historians having lifted passages from other historians is
a relatively harmless error
an example of academic collaboration
deserving of harsh punishment
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