Plagiarism is Everyone's Business and Business is Good

“The concept of plagiarism, however, is learned in more specialized contexts of practice entered into only by a few; it’s hard to get from the notion that you shouldn’t appropriate your neighbor’s car to the notion that you should not repeat his words without citing him.”
–Stanley Fish tries to make the argument that plagiarism is an “insider’s issue” for academics and specialists. Stanley Fish is totally missing the fact that there’s been a worldwide exponential explosion in the number of authors and publishers in the last 15 years. Now word and idea theft is everyone’s business-and it’s big business, from social media to classrooms to gaming to content farms.