Quote from: AoSpooling on January 31, 2020, 06:26:29 PM

Nah, it is not the way it works. What you have stated above has absolutely nothing to do with the matter discussed here.

Clearly, you have some reading to do Wink

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement

There is nothing wrong with doing research to get direction on a particular topic. The problem arises with the usage of whole passages of text copied verbatim from the source and pasted into your work, with just a few words changed here and there. There is no citation, no reference to the original author, nor is it clear how extensive the 'borrowing' was. This is blatant plagiarism!

Another thing we can talk about is copyright infringement. I guess you know what that means? The content you used in your whitepaper is clearly part of the copyrighted work, and I sincerely doubt that you got permission from the author.