The - Monica Crowley- copying matter

A post at CNN begins:


Conservative author and television personality Monica Crowley, whom Donald Trump has tapped for a top national security communications role, plagiarized large sections of her 2012 book, a CNN KFile review has found.

The review of Crowley’s June 2012 book, "What The (Bleep) Just Happened," found upwards of 50 examples of plagiarism from numerous sources, including the copying with minor changes of news articles, other columnists, think tanks, and Wikipedia. The New York Times bestseller, published by the HarperCollins imprint Broadside Books, contains no notes or bibliography.

Crowley did not return a request for comment. A spokesperson for HarperCollins told CNN on Sunday: "We have no comment at this time. We are looking into the matter



A lot of the examples given at CNN pertain to the copying of factual information
from an earlier source, without citing the earlier source.

For example, Crowley wrote:



Reuters reported Soros’s
connection to Adbusters, the magazine that is
reported to have come up with the Occupy Wall
Street idea after the
Arab Spring" protests brought down
governments in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia.
Adbusters is funded by the Tides Center, which
collects and disseminates a huge number
of donations to a slew of Leftist groups.




Aaron Klein had written in 2011:


Yesterday, in an article entitled, Who’s behind
the Wall St. protests?"
Reuters reported on the billionaire’s
connection to Adbusters, the magazine that is
reported to have come up with the Occupy Wall
Street idea after
Arab Spring protests toppled
governments in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia.
Adbusters is funded by the Tides Center, which
acts like a massive clearinghouse
of donations to a slew of liberal groups.




Link to CNN: http://money.cnn.com/interactive/news/
kfile-trump-monica-crowley-plagiarized-multiple-sources-2012-book/

As noted many times before, plagiarism, which is copying without
attribution, is distinct from copyright infringement, which among
other things, requires copying of copyrightable text.