[alecqss]

Oh, well - another twist. Now plagiarism is not lifting a literary work or a scientific research

No.

Apparently, now it's a mentioning of the event that happened, like FBI foiling an islamic terrorist plot the other day...

[TalBlack]

"Oh, well - another twist. Now plagiarism is not lifting a literary work or a scientific research"

Indeed. I'd always thought plagiarisim was stealing an idea (and so neccessarialy the wording) NOT descriptions. The only similar passages I've seen quoted involve journalist type descriptions of things, in which case every newspaper everyday is guilty of plagiarisim.