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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Paula Felps
May 31--Last September, Rosalind Mays was enjoying success as the author of the e-book How You Can Make Money at Home when she learned that her work was being sold on another Web site -- under another writer's name.
"Several people who had read my e-book e-mailed me and told me that someone was selling a book that was exactly like the book I had written and promoted for the past two years," says Ms. Mays, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
"That version of my e-book was being sold alongside my book at Booklocker.com, as well as at the plagiarizer's Web site."
So began Ms. Mays' frustrating attempts to fight the newest form of piracy: online plagiarism.
The Internet has added infinite possibilities for writers, but it also has launched a platform for headaches and lawsuits, with copyright violations being committed both innocently and intentionally on Web sites designed for personal and business use.
Most recently, the University of Virginia was rocked by scandal when 122 students were found to have plagiarized term papers for a physics class.
Physics professor Louis Bloomfield was alerted to the widespread practice by a student who received a low score on his paper and complained that other students had...
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