Plágio, cópia, imitação: uma reflexão cada vez mais indispensável

Abstract

Editorial Plagiarism, copying, imitation: an increasingly unavoidable issueThe article "Editorial Ethics: Fraudulent Arbitration" 1 by Ernesto Spinak, published on the SciELO in Perspective blog on 20 February 2015, highlights the growing problem of plagiarism and describes new ways of fooling automated plagiarism controls, which are generally unable to effectively evaluate the content of articles 2,3 . According to the text, an almost handmade procedure is sufficient to overcome plagiarism detection software: