Journals today are faced with the challenge of publishing work that may have been plagiarized. Publishing such work can seriously damage a journal's reputation. Thus, organizations are changing their editorial processes to detect and prevent plagiarism before papers are sent for review.

Laura Miller from Salon recently penned a very enlightening article about the proliferation of ‘E-Book Spam,’ specifically on Amazon’s Kindle E-Reader. Although E-Books are still a relatively new form of content consumption, the medium is already facing the same spam problems that blogs and online publishers have battled with for more than a decade.

One type of legal plagiarism that is often covered in the news is copyright infringement, where an individual or business unlawfully infringes on another entity's intellectual property – essentially using the content without license or attribution. One example is the well-known case in 2009 of Apple winning a copyright infringement case against Psystar for illegally copying, modifying, and distributing Apple's code.

The past decade has seen a scary increase in the number research paper retractions. The Journal of Medical Ethics published a study last year that examined close to eight hundred retracted research papers.

We recently had the opportunity to chat with Editor-in-Chief Raymond Hammond of the New York Quarterly Magazine, a publication that Rolling Stone has called "The most important poetry magazine in America", about his thoughts on plagiarism and his experience with iThenticate.

Pexton expounds on the topic of freelancer plagiarism, saying: