Plagiarism goes by a different name on the web: a journalism class experiences firsthand 'the slippery new terms being used in our slippery times.'.(Taking Words)

If the Internet is the Wild West of our times, with boom towns sprouting up too fast for the law to keep up, then perhaps "repurposing" is the rustling of our times, where original material is stolen from its home pasture and brazenly rebranded under the name of another Internet site.

Of course, repurposing--when practiced correctly--is not theft. It has a legitimate aim: to take news stories done by traditional news organizations and modify them to fit other formats, such as the Internet. Yahoo! News does this all the time--and well. Yahoo! News always credits the ...

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