Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-24859393-20171015201237/@comment-366087-20171018062620

MenInBlak wrote: Wait, I don't get that, so if the content includes the same information, just that it has different wording, it counts as plagiarism? If that's the case, then a good 94% or so articles on this wiki should be deleted for plagiarism. Plagiarism is a tricky thing. There are a couple of Staff whose MAIN JOB is knowing all about copyright infractions. But yes, simple word-substitutions is not enough to avoid plagiarism claims. If someone is a graffiti artist in one source but the copy changes it to "street tagger", that is not enough to change it.

Consider song claims. Courts will rule on elements such as tempo, beat, and composition regardless of if words are different. Which is why sampling has restrictions to number of chords which can be copied before permissions and royalties must be made.