On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Brock Weller brock.weller@gmail.com wrote:
In the process of investigating a quirky article for unrelated reasons, it popped up that massive swaths of text in [[Introduction to M-theory]] were copied verbatim and near-verbatim (rearranged) from the book 'The Turn of the Century'. <snip>
How can we protect against these things?
I'm not sure we can in any certain way. There are bots that search for likely copyvios and more work will probably be done in this area. Rearranged text makes it hard to impossible, though.
(minor nitpick: 2004-2008 is four years, not eight).
However, I don't think there's all that much of it out there, frankly.
-Matt