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Several days ago I was contacted by fellow freelance writer, Luana Spinetti. She wrote to thank me for a recent post on my business writing blog — one where I talked about the risks business owners take on in hiring bottom-of-the-barrel content writers. In that post I talked a bit about plagiarism and how passing a plagiarism checker (like Copyscape) in no way meant articles were ethically, or legally, written. That’s because those tools can’t generally separate original and derivative works. And derivative works (“spinning,” translating someone else’s articles for publication, rewriting text with the same structure and ideas, etc.) …