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: Copyright infringement on spelling of invented names? Years ago I invented a name for a kingdom/country in my YA fantasy novel, which I am on the verge of self-publishing. At random, I discovered
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: Is this MLA in-text citation correct? I've been having major trouble trying to find if the following paragraph's MLA in-text citation is correct. My main issue is that the in-text cite is supposed
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: Is it considered plagiarism to publish a novel that has characters of the same animal species? I am currently working on the last draft of my children's novel. Recently, I found out that several
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: What really is considered as plagiarism? I am currently writing a novel which I noticed is based on ideas from many books that I have read. I noticed that what did I do is get an idea from
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: Is using the layout of anothers published work in danger of plagiarisim if nothing else is the same? I started writing a book that uses the ‘layout’ or ‘style’ of another very popular
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: How much can you reuse ideas from other stories? So there was a novel that had some cool ideas and I really liked, but also there were many parts that made me annoyed mostly due to the
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: Do publishers check manuscripts using anti-plagiarism softwares? I am writing a non-fiction book. Although I am very keen on giving references where ever there is a need, there are small parts
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: How can I know that I'm not plagiarizing? New to the web. I just recently started to write again. I won a few highschool prizes writing short stories. Around the same time, I began to play
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: Is this Plagiarism? I wrote this blog post about an article I found online -> https://www.timesofisrael.com/researchers-develop-system-to-measure-solar-energy-potential-of-city-roofs/ This is my post: The
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: Mention name in paraphrased text? I'm a newbie writer and I would like to properly make references in my book (I'm thinking of using Chicago style, but am not married to it). Currently, I'm
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: How does one avoid inevitable influences being obvious when writing something like superheroes? So I have been debating writing a story idea I have had swimming in my head for a long time.
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: Writing a supernatural book with characters who have supernatural powers that have already been explored in other works? I am in the process of writing a book with many of the characters discovering
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: I may have unintentionally copied a TV series As some of you might know from my other question, I'm writing a middle-grade book (hopefully the first in a series). In the setting of the series,
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: Is a novel based on the facts of a person's written journal considered plagiarism? According to Plagiarism.org, copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority
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: Questionable behavior by editor Last year, I worked for an organization that published a weekly blog on its website. The blog was also published as a newspaper column and was included in a
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: Can I use Stephen Hawking's name in my Science fiction book? I wrote a science fiction book in which, Alien species comes on earth and they meet with Dr. Stephen Hawking. Is it legal to use
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: Do I need to change the title of my book because it is similar to the Transformers Universe? I used the name Primus and Primes for my book and these are from the transformers universe. My
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: How can I Include a verbatim passage in my fiction without plagiarizing it? In my novel, the MC goes to a resort and at the resort, they offer two types of Buddhist meditations. Those meditations
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: Citing secondary sources in Chicago style? I am a little bit paranoid about plagiarizing, and I am confused since I have found two seemingly contradictory answers for this. Suppose source X says
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: How does re-posting someone else's article/column/blog work I'm not sure if this is the correct exchange group to ask this, but I came across this article, Alternet_Paul_Krugman_Article, in which
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: Is it considered plagiarism if i take an item from another story and use it in my own? I am writing an essay for school about "The Neighborhood of the Future" And I want to include the
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: How do we distinguish plagiarism from homage in literature? In film-making, some people consider a copy of an action scene scene-by-scene to be a homage. Is it any different in literature; how
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: Borrowing Characters Would it be a violation of copyright and/or plagiarism to “borrow†a character from another novel? For example, I have a short story and want to include as a side character
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: When does inspiration across artforms become plagiarism eSpoilers for Green Book in the E.g. section I listen to a lot of music, and when I come up with stories, I often use songs as a source
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: Can I write a book of my D&D game? I am a long time Dungeon Master of Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder. My games run in a custom world of my own making. However, I utilise a lot of
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: Is it plagiarism to use Google Translate? This may be a very very stupid question but I need to ask it. I have written my dissertation in my mother tongue first, then began to translate it
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: Ensuring that a line or a passage doesn't get mistakenly identified as plagiarism Is there a website that checks whether a character's line or descriptive passage is exactly the same as in another
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: Is my book to similar to Matched by Allie Condie I'm currently writing a book about a government that designs its citizens' DNA and assigns them each to a job or purpose in life best suited
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: I noticed that several already-existing poems used the same highly specific puns and phrases that I used. Is this unintentional plagiarism on my part? A bit of context: Exhibit A) I wrote a
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: Is it plagiarism to use an item from another story in my own story? What if I use an item from another story in my story? For example, in my story there is a metal called adamantium which
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: I feel like my book is too similar to famous existing novels? I won't get into all the details, but my book is about four characters that realise that the universe isn't what it seems. They
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: Can the outline of a short story be reason for plagiarism? 3 years ago a friend of mine shared the outline of a short story ( 1 page) inspired by Wild Swans the fairytale by Hans Christian
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: In literary fiction, when does allusion, pastiche or intertextuality cross over into plagiarism? I want to write a novella that to some degree translates Conrad's Heart of Darkness to a modern
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: How can I make the plagiarism detector "Ithenticate" identify "θ-continuous" as a single word? I have a problem with the similarity index of one of my works since the plagiarism detector "Ithenticate"
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: I have a retracted article for ethical misconduct, this means my career is over? When I was in my first year of M.SC. A professor told me to work on a project that the main data were belong
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: What is legal and illegal in writing? I am planning to write a book in my mother tongue (so excuse my bad grammar). It's in "Business and Management" So, while I was reading books for my
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: How do I know which elements I can use from the work which orginally inspired me? I recently read the Blood on the Stars series by Jay Allan and really enjoyed the idea of a post-Golden
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: On copyright infringement and plagiarism So, I'm writing a novella about this guy named Peter, who is an actor living in LA. In the fall, he comes back to his hometown, a small town in New
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: What are the copyright laws and permission requirements for a teacher using a student's work as an example? If a teacher makes a writing assignment for students (some would be minors), can the
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: I feel like I'm plagiarizing my story? So my fears are kind of taking over my enjoyment of writing my book because I feel I'm doing something wrong. In my story I stole ideas from other
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