[AndyJackson]

And, in the example I provided above, making a copyright claim to IP when it was actually someone else's IP is fraud.

Somebody does something genuinely original, someone else steals it and passes it off has his won original idea, he is a scoundrel of the worst order.

But this isn't a game of igotcha and you have fallen into the trap of modern academia of trivializing the issue, which is mostly used to benefit those who actually don't have a lot useful to say.

[KC Burke]

Its not like we are asking for her to be a Vice President after being a plagiarist of major political speeches...whoops, that was Joe. But that’s okay, he’s a Dem.