Paul- You said: "And since plagiarism is a legal construct, does the author sue 
herself?"

Paul- I do not think that is correct (but would welcome correction). Plagiarism 
is a set of standards and agreements within a community not a set of laws 
protecting intellectual property. That is the issue of copyright with its own 
set of difficulties and dilemmas. I believe this discussion has confused 
plagiarism and copyright violation which is often the case- and some of that is 
due to confusions within the two sets of norms and very unclear boundaries. I 
think you were correct when you started by pointing out that violating a/the 
journal's publication rules wasn't the same thing as plagiarism. But I'd add, 
which isn't the same thing as copyright violation.
Tim 
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Timothy O. Shearon, PhD
Professor and Chair Department of Psychology
The College of Idaho
Caldwell, ID 83605
email: [email protected]

teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and 
systems

"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker

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