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  2. False attribution - Wikipedia

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    False attribution may refer to: Misattribution in general, when a quotation or work is accidentally, traditionally, or based on bad information attributed to the wrong person or group A specific fallacy where an advocate appeals to an irrelevant, unqualified, unidentified, biased, or fabricated source in support of an argument.

  3. Pseudepigrapha - Wikipedia

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    When a text is shown to have been falsely attributed to a particular author, and the true identity of the author is not known, the author can be referred to by a combination of pseudo-and the traditional authors name. For example, the Armenian History has been falsely attributed to an Armenian historian named seventh-century Sebeos, and it is ...

  4. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    False attribution – appealing to an irrelevant, unqualified, unidentified, biased or fabricated source in support of an argument. Fallacy of quoting out of context (contextotomy, contextomy; quotation mining) – selective excerpting of words from their original context to distort the intended meaning.

  5. List of common false etymologies of English words - Wikipedia

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    The word derived from Proto-Germanic roots, and has cognates in many other Germanic languages. [9] [10] [11] Shit: The word "shit" did not originate as an acronym for "Ship High in Transit", a label falsely said to have been used on shipments of manure to prevent them from becoming waterlogged and releasing explosive methane gas.

  6. Literary forgery - Wikipedia

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    Cover of The Songs of Bilitis (1894), a French pseudotranslation of Ancient Greek erotic poetry by Pierre Louÿs. Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work, which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author, or is a purported memoir or other presumably nonfictional ...

  7. Moral rights in United Kingdom law - Wikipedia

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    It only applies to acts of false attribution perpetrated after 1 August 1989, and lasts for 20 years after the death of the person falsely attributed with authorship. It is infringed whenever an individual issues copies of a work to the public, exhibits them in public or broadcasts them with a false attribution. [20]

  8. The New Solution to Cultural Appropriation? ‘Nothing From Us ...

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    Burch said she would correct the false attribution immediately and work with the municipality to “support local artisans” in Portugal. Asked what the industry can do to help, Frausto Guerrero ...

  9. Shakespeare authorship question - Wikipedia

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    Little is known of Shakespeare's personal life, and some anti-Stratfordians take this as circumstantial evidence against his authorship. [37] Further, the lack of biographical information has sometimes been taken as an indication of an organised attempt by government officials to expunge all traces of Shakespeare, including perhaps his school records, to conceal the true author's identity.