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A comment on Joel Spolsky: The Day My Industry Died. Parent comment

Re:Joel Spolsky: The Day My Industry Died by pyre on Thursday July 23, 2009 @08:00PM (#720638)
Plagiarizing himself? Huh? Is that even possible?
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Re:Joel Spolsky: The Day My Industry Died by blasdel on Thursday July 23, 2009 @08:12PM (#720660)
Yes, and it's a big fucking deal in academia -- you're bloating your publications / citations / reputation without actually contributing anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism#Self-plagiarism

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Re:Joel Spolsky: The Day My Industry Died by swolchok on Thursday July 23, 2009 @08:20PM (#720670)
From your linked article:

"Typically, self-plagiarism is only considered to be a serious ethical issue in settings where a publication is asserted to consist of new material, such as in academic publishing or educational assignments [13]. It does not apply (except in the legal sense) to public-interest texts, such as social, professional, and cultural opinions usually published in newspapers and magazines."

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