crime of literary theft

  • 1Crime fiction — Murder mystery redirects here. For other uses, see Murder mystery (disambiguation). Sherlock Holmes, pipe puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. Crime fiction is the… …

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  • 2Crime film — Crime films are films which focus on the lives of criminals. The stylistic approach to a crime film varies from realistic portrayals of real life criminal figures, to the far fetched evil doings of imaginary arch villains. Criminal acts are… …

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  • 3Document theft — is the crime of stealing documents of historical, literary, or cultural interest from public or private archives, often for the purpose of sale to private collectors. In many cases, document thieves occupy positions of trust, or have established… …

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  • 4Federation Against Software Theft — The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) [1] was formed in 1984 by the British Computer Society s Copyright Committee, making it the world s first software anti piracy organisation.In September 2008 FAST and Investors in Software signed an… …

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  • 5plagiarist — n. 1. Plagiary, literary thief. 2. Plagiarism, crime of literary theft …

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  • 6Twain–Ament indemnities controversy — The Twain–Ament indemnities controversy was a major cause célèbre in the United States of America in 1901 as a consequence of the published reactions of American humorist Mark Twain to reports of Rev. William Scott Ament and other missionaries… …

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  • 7Sicilian Mafia — Mafia redirects here. For other uses, see Mafia (disambiguation). Sketch of the 1901 maxi trial of suspected mafiosi in Palermo. From the newspaper L Ora, May 1901 The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra) is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the… …

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  • 8Manwel Dimech — Manuel Dimech Born 25 December 1860(1860 12 25) Valletta, Malta Died 17 April 1921(1921 04 17) (aged 60) Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt. Buried in an unmarked grave within the grounds of Victoria College, Alexandria …

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  • 9The Covent-Garden Journal — The 18 January 1752 issue of The Covent Garden Journal The Covent Garden Journal (modernised as The Covent Garden Journal) was an English literary periodical published twice a week for most of 1752. It was edited and almost entirely financed by… …

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  • 10plagiarism — I noun appropriation, appropriation of a literary composition, copying, copyright infringement, duplication, forgery, imitation, imitation of an original, infringement, literary forgery, literary piracy, literary theft, misappropriation,… …

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