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  2. Plagiarism - Wikipedia

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    Submitting someone's work as their own. Taking passages from their own previous work without adding citations (self-plagiarism). Re-writing someone's work without properly citing sources. Using quotations but not citing the source. Interweaving various sources together in the work without citing. Citing some, but not all, passages that should ...

  3. White elephant gift exchange - Wikipedia

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    Each gift can only be stolen a specified number of times per game, commonly two, after that the holder of the gift keeps it. The game is over when everyone has a present. At the end – according to some variations – the first player is allowed to swap their gift by stealing someone else's gift, even a gift that is out of play. [citation needed]

  4. Pickpocketing - Wikipedia

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    Pickpocketing "Dandy PickPockets Diving: Scene Near St. James Palace" (1818) by I. R. Cruikshank. Pickpocketing is a form of larceny that involves the stealing of money or other valuables from the person or a victim's pocket without them noticing the theft at the time.

  5. Joke theft - Wikipedia

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    Even the most famous of comics have found themselves, knowingly or unknowingly, stealing material. Bill Cosby admitted to stealing a joke by George Carlin involving an uneducated football player doing a television commercial. Cosby said that what makes the routine his own is the surreal phrase "little tiny hairs".

  6. Poison Profits -- The Lead Paint Blame Game

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    Mandatory blood testing and a 2004 law requiring lead paint inspections have paid dividends, contributing to a big drop in the number of reported poisoning cases each year. But for children in many of the poorest parts of the city — areas populated overwhelmingly by minorities and immigrants — the risk of lead poisoning remains stubbornly ...

  7. Copyright infringement - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, copyright term has been extended many times over [36] from the original term of 14 years with a single renewal allowance of 14 years, to the current term of the life of the author plus 70 years. If the work was produced under corporate authorship it may last 120 years after creation or 95 years after publication, whichever ...

  8. What's Considered Stealing at Work? - AOL

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    According to an AOL Jobs survey, almost half of the respondents (43 percent) admit to taking things from work to keep for personal use, though most of those report taking only small office ...

  9. Virtual crime - Wikipedia

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    MMORPG - Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, which is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game. MMORPGs are a platform susceptible to virtual crime. MMOG or MMO - Massively multiplayer online game, which is an online video game with a large number of players on the same ...