What makes them especially disgusting is their claim of copyright on their
papers by "contracted writers" (any of you Twainians out there under
contract to "The Paper Store Enterprises"?). They've cleverly lifted 5-10pp
sections from several familiar books and longer essays. Edgar Branch's
writings on HF and Salinger seem to have yielded several papers, but it's
hard to know for sure since they only provide a synopsis and they retitle
everything. If any of you see material for which you (or a publisher) hold
copyright, I'd suggest you use internic to discover their host, and then
write both them and their host a nasty-gram citing the Millennial Copyright
Act which makes the website provider liable as well once they've been put on
notice of an infringement. The only requirement (catch) is that the actual
copyright holder (or their atty) must assert the claim of copyright. None of
us can complain on behalf of others with any effect.

Kevin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Susanna Ashton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:48 AM
Subject: mark twain paper plagiarisms


> Dear Colleagues -
>
> In the course of tracking down a student plagiarism, I came across a web
> site that sells papers about Mark Twain to students (I was impressed that
> Twain merited his own special plagiarism site).
>
> http://www.mark-twain-essays.com
>
> Anyway, I noticed that several of the papers they were selling were
> themselves plagiarized.  The most egregious example I noticed was a couple
> of essays for sale titled "A Case Study in Critical Controversy" which
> steal directly and indirectly from the critical commentary written by
> Gerald Graff and James Phelan for the Bedford St Martin's Press versions
of
> Huckleberry Finn.
>
> I wrote a nasty note to the site (as if they care about their quality
> control....hah!), but if you have published any widely-available critical
> commentary on Twain, it might be worth your while to peruse this site and
> see if they are selling your material for other people to pass off as
their
> own.
>
> Sadly,
>
> Susanna Ashton
>
>
>
>
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