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Re:Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up ... by mdm_ on Monday July 30, 2012 @04:29PM (#4314509)
I'm not sure I understand how anyone can plagiarize themselves either. Isn't that just called "recycling your own material"? For example, several parts of David Foster Wallace's speech/book This Is Water are pretty much verbatim from Infinite Jest. Or what about authors who are pushing ideologies and repeat themselves a lot? For example, there's a lot of overlap between Ayn Rand's novels Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Isn't this just what writers do?
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Re:Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up ... by amritamaz on Monday July 30, 2012 @04:39PM (#4314553)
I think the problem was that his deal with the New Yorker meant he would create original work for them. I'm sure it's okay when they are your own books that you sell to publishers, and the publishers are aware of the overlap in content, but in this case he was supposed to be writing new, original pieces for the New Yorker.
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Re:Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up ... by acdanger on Monday July 30, 2012 @05:10PM (#4314710)
Reminds me of the episode where John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival fame was sued by a former label for recording a song that was too similar to one he had recorded prior with another record label.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogerty_v._Fantasy

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