>real plagiarism involves lifting quotes, evocative descriptions, wordplay, the writing and thoughts of another writer. That's what sunk the CREATURE book and Spiderbaby -- not that the authors lifted facts and boilerplate phrases but that they appropriated and represented as theirs' the intellectual thought processes of another writer.<

Exactly the core point at issue.

>Reputations and scale do matter; for those who disagree, that's OK too. But there's a difference between sad revelations of serial plagiarism and a hunting ground... Or in some cases, a hunting game.<

And the correct perspective in which to see that core point.

Monsterkid since the Kennedy Era