Ed Champion reports on the flagrant theft of copyrighted writing by a cooking magazine named Cooks Source. First, the food historian behind this 16th century apple pie article noticed that her article was printed without permission in the magazine. She asked about it and was asked if she didn’t want it published, since it was already online. Once Champion learned about it, he looked for other copy-n-pasted articles in the magazine and found at least five definite instances and several possible ones.
The blog How Publishing Really Workshas a good post about this.