[pp.int.general] Plagiarism is bad because it infringes copyright????

[Richard Stallman]

    Guttenberg might have violated authorship laws, but more important, he
    handed his dissertion in with an affirmation in lieu of an oath that he
    created it autonomously.

Exactly.  Plagiarism has nothing to do with copyright.
Plagiarism is a kind of lie, and that is what makes it bad.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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