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> We don't put journalists in jail for plagiarism.

I'm guessing you're imagining a scenario here were a journalist has copied an entire article verbatim and republished it in their newspaper. That would actually be both copyright infringement AND plagiarism. Newspapers just rarely enforce that right.

These two things aren't on a scale. They are independent infractions.



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