<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Dear all,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>From Wikipedia on plagiarism:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial,
Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>"Although plagiarism in some contexts is considered theft or stealing, <strong>the concept does not exist in a legal sense</strong>. "Plagiarism" is not mentioned in any current statute, either <a title="Criminal law" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_law"><font color="#0066cc">criminal</font></a> or <a title="Civil law (common law)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(common_law)"><font color="#0066cc">civil</font></a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Lands99_10-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism#cite_note-Lands99-10"><font color="#0066cc" size="2">[10]</font></a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-SSRN315562_7-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism#cite_note-SSRN315562-7"><font color="#0066cc" size="2">[7]</font></a></sup> Some cases may be treated as <a title="Unfair competition"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfair_competition"><font color="#0066cc">unfair competition</font></a> or a violation of the doctrine of <a title="Moral rights (copyright law)" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_(copyright_law)"><font color="#0066cc">moral rights</font></a>."</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Regards,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; background-color:
transparent;"><span>Monica</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 6.4px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><sup><br></sup></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 4.46px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><sup><br></sup></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 102, 204); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 9.2px; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><sup><br></sup></span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica,
Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Sunday, March 30, 2014 12:59 PM, Detmar Meurers <dm@JULIUS.LING.OHIO-STATE.EDU> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">Dear Valia, and colleagues,<div class="yqt0708326889" id="yqtfd38563"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I personally feel (from the first moment I read the original message)<br clear="none">> extremely uncomfortable that all this sensitive info is being discussed on<br clear="none">> a mailing list, and we are all implicitly/explicitly being asked to pass<br clear="none">> judgements on the scientific deeds and the quality of such deeds of a<br clear="none">> (female) person, and to take sides. Is she a member of any of the lists<br clear="none">> where the original email went to? How can she participate in the<br clear="none">> discussion and get the chance to defend herself, if there is
anything to<br clear="none">> defend and if she can? I am really sorry to say this. I strongly believe<br clear="none">> that such issues should be taken to and resolved by justice bodies/courts:<br clear="none">> defaming someone is bad an offence as plagiarism.</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">if this were about defaming and taking sides, I'd fully agree. But the<br clear="none">thread instead is about discovering and sharing hard evidence that<br clear="none">someone working in the field has systematically copy-pasted an entire<br clear="none">paper and apparently more works.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">How is the research community supposed to react to the publication and<br clear="none">electronic distribution of such blatantly plagiarized work if not by<br clear="none">making it public? (Relatedly, journals also publish reviews of other<br clear="none">publications, publicly pointing out their virtues and shortcomings.)<br
clear="none">The alternative idea of taking up such an intellectural property<br clear="none">rights case in front of a court as far as I'm aware is not a realistic<br clear="none">solution (e.g., the IPR violation caused no or minimal financial<br clear="none">damage).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">It seems crucial to alert the linguistics community that more<br clear="none">attention apparently needs to be paid to the reality of blatant<br clear="none">plagiarism. Until Stefan's post it seemed that nobody would bother to<br clear="none">seriously plagiarize in such a highly-focused, academic field (outside<br clear="none">of student term papers).<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Best,<br clear="none">Detmar<div class="yqt0708326889" id="yqtfd94248"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>