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Also IIRC stripping a copyright notice from plagiarised work is a more severe offense than just the plagiarisation alone.



Plagiarism and copyright violation are not the same thing.

Plagiarism is an ethical offense but not a legal one and isn’t limited to direct reuse. It includes using ideas (even in your own words or representation) without attributing them.

Copyright violation is a legal offense and applies to direct reuse (including various forms of “remixing”).

(IANAL, this is not legal advice.)


See the comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23203451 for details about the benefits of putting the notice there even if not required.




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