Brian L. Frye on Plagiarism Norms

Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law and Friend of the Show, is here to talk about what it means to be a teacher under plagiarism norms. In "Plagiarism is Not a Crime", he tackles the differences between the often-conflated copyright infringement and plagiarism and concludes plagiarism prohibition is not justified on its supporters' own terms. Here, we stretch the paper's ideas to divine what policy goals could possibly justify the cruel, career-ending repercussions of doing something that is not illegal; that is, a practice in service of extra-legal norms.*Ipse Dixit* is your perpetual podcast on legal scholarship produced by Mike Overby, software engineer extraordinaire, podcaster, and Twitter-approved legal thinker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.