Re: Plagiarism - The use of another's work, words, or ideas without attribution.

The "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another creator's "work, language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own work.

This is an idea with unclear definitions and unclear rules. The modern concept of plagiarism as immoral and originality as an ideal emerged in Europe only in the 18th century. Plagiarism is now considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics.
But the concept does not exist in a legal sense. "Plagiarism" is not mentioned in any current statute, either criminal or civil.

It is not a crime but it is a serious ethical offense, and cases of plagiarism can constitute copyright infringement. It is subject to sanctions like penalties, suspension, and even expulsion. But it is very difficult to prove.

Self-plagiarism (also known as "recycling fraud") is the reuse of significant, identical, or nearly identical portions of one's own work without acknowledging that one is doing so or without citing the original work. Identifying self-plagiarism is difficult because limited reuse of material is accepted both legally (as fair use.) and ethically.

Plagiarism and the history of art/music

To the entire history of artistic creativity belong plagiarism, literary theft,appropriation, incorporation, retelling, rewriting, recapitulation, revision, reprise, thematic variation, ironic retake, imitation, stylistic theft, pastiches, collages and deliberate assemblages.

There is no rigorous and precise distinction between practices like imitation, stylistic plagiarism, copy, replica and forgery.

T.S. Eliot- "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. Bad poets deface what they take."

People didn't complain about the evidence of plagiarism in Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" or Shakespeare's plays, though both freely borrowed and imitated. .

"crediting bits and pieces of another's work is scholarly tradition, not an artistic tradition" - see folk music

"Of course I plagiarize," Oscar Wilde admitted

Types of Plagiarism
Full Plagiarism: When a person copies the content from another source exactly as it is.

Partial Plagiarism: When a person combines data from two or three different sources in his work.

Minimalistic Plagiarism: When a person paraphrases the same content but in a subtly different direction and manner.

Mosaic Plagiarism: Lifting ideas, phrases, and paragraphs from a variety of sources, with no attribution.

Other plagiarisms: Appropriation (Art), Assemblage (Composition) text built explicitly from existing texts, Intertextual figures that include allusion, quotation, translation, pastiche, parody, Cryptomnesia (a forgotten memory is believed to be something new and original), Sampling (Music), and a Dada/cut up technique. Is this repurposing or plagiarising, or both?

Additional methods and techniques: Selective extraction that differs from original context, Selective precis, Redaction, Article Spinning, Eliding, Misquoting, Misinterpreting, No qotation marks, Inaccurate attribution, Fabricated or Omitted information

“The ability to tell whether something is of human or computer provenance … might become really important. We will all be like blade runner people, trying to tell if a text is human.”

see http://botpoet.com/

We buried the forest,
Poetic constructions from Marilyn,
Redacted Poems