I have nooooo desire to step into doo-doo here but ... is lifting lines of synopsis really all that awful? Yes it's a crappy thing to do, and you shouldn't do it, and you certainly shouldn't do it over and over and over .... but if in the course of reviewing a movie I wrote a three- or four-sentence synopsis, and later I noticed it turned up somewhere else... Well, first of all, I don't even think I'd notice. But if I did, I wouldn't be upset. I'd just think to myself, "Ya lazy so-and-so...!" But ... so what? I mean, how much different could somebody else's three-sentence synopsis of MONSTER FROM GREEN HELL be from mine?

Once you get into stealing other people's analysis and "Making Of" info and stuff like that, then yeah, plagiarism mega-stinks.

FYI, many moons ago, I submitted to IMDb slightly rewritten versions of the intros to most of the interviews I'd done. In other words, oldtime scream queen Hhsgasdf Kasdfsadfsafd had NO IMDb bio, so I took my intro (kind of an overview of her career) and rewrote it just a hair, and submitted it to IMDb with my name as the contributor. I did this with maybe 100 people or more. As they died, ever-so-slightly-changed lines from many, many of my bios ended up in their obits in a lot of major newspapers.

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