Perspectives on plagiarism and intellectual property in a postmodern world / Lise Buranen and Alice M. Roy, editors ; foreword by Andrea Lunsford.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index.

Copy wrong : plagiarism, process, property, and the law / Laurie Stearns -- Originality, authenticity, imitation, and plagiarism : Augustine's Chinese cousins / C. Jan Swearingen -- Intellectual property, authority, and social formation : sociohistorical perspectives on the author function / James Thomas Zebroski -- Competing notions of authorship : a historical look at students and textbooks on plagiarism and cheating / Sue Carter Simmons -- Whose words these are I think I know : plagiarism, the postmodern, and faculty attitudes / Alice M. Roy.

"But I wasn't cheating" : plagiarism and cross-cultural mythology / Lisa Buranen -- A distant mirror or through the looking glass? Plagiarism and intellectual property in Japanese education / L.M. Dryden -- The new abolitionism comes to plagiarism / Rebecca Moore Howard -- The illusion of modernist allusion and the politics of postmodern plagiarism / Kevin J.H. Dettmar -- Poaching and plagiarism : property, plagiarism, and feminist futures / Debora Halbert -- t From Kant to Foucault : what remains of the author in postmodernism / Gilbert Larochelle.

Imperial plagiarism / Marilyn Randall -- Literary borrowing and historical compilation in medieval China / Robert Andr�e LaFleur -- Writing centers and plagiarism / Irene L. Clark -- Writing centers and intellectual property : are faculty members and students differently entitled? / Carol Peterson Haviland, Joan Mullin -- Plagiarism, rhetorical theory, and the writing center : new approaches, new locations / Linda Shamoon, Deborah H. Burns -- Confusion and conflict about plagiarism in law schools and law practice / Terri LeClercq.

Student plagiarism as an institutional and social issue / Edward M. White -- When collaboration becomes plagiarism : the administrative perspective / Henry L. Wilson -- Plagiarism as metaphor / David Leight -- The ethics of appropriation in peer writing groups / Candace Spigelman -- The role of scholarly citations in disciplinary economies / Shirley K. Rose -- Brand name use in creative writing : genericide or language right? / Shawn M. Clankie -- GenX occupies the cultural commons : ethical practices and perceptions of fair use / Joan Livingston-Webber.

This book offers a wealth of thinking about the complex and often contradictory definitions surrounding the concepts of plagiarism and intellectual property. The authors show that plagiarism is not nearly as simple and clear cut a phenomenon as we may think. Contributors offer many definitions and facets of plagiarism and intellectual property, demonstrating that if defining a supposedly "simple" concept is difficult, then applying multiple definitions is even harder, creating practical problems in many realms. This volume exposes the range and breadth of these overlapping and complex issues, reflecting a postmodern sensibility of fragmentation, and clarifies some of the confusion, not by reducing plagiarism to ever-simpler definitions and providing new or better rules to apply, but by complicating the issue, examining what plagiarism and intellectual property are (and are not) in our more or less postmodern world.

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