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RE: Citing sources - is it enough? The war against plagiarism continues
copy / paste of copyright material is wrong, full stop.
There is a lot of public domain material around that people can use. Even at that, they should at least take the time to format it so it fits in here on Steemit.
If all they want to do is copy/paste then the upvotes should reflect the effort. LIke no upvote. IMO
A new user @ocanada posted a public domain story of Stephen Leacock's this morning after taking the time to format it for easier reading on Steemit and adding graphics.
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I completely agree with this. I'm not sure how I feel about the post from @ocanada, but atleast there's some effort there. I'm not sure how hard it is to obtain a readable copy of this story, so I don't know if this is a good service or not. I personally wouldn't upvote it though, so I will just leave it alone instead.