If you steal from your husband, is it still plagiarism?

[George K]

https://freebeacon.com/campus/not-just-claudine-gay-harvards-chief-diversity-officer-plagiarized-and-claimed-credit-for-husbands-work-complaint-alleges/

[Copper]

Sherri Charleston Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Sherri Ann Charleston serves as the first Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer (CDIO) at Harvard University.

https://edib.harvard.edu/people#:~:text=Sherri Charleston Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Sherri,education%2C and assumed her role in August 2020.

[George K]

Best comment: "Now she just looks like she’s copying from Claudine Gay."

[Axtremus]

Yes, stealing prose from your spouse, children, other family members, etc. are still stealing.

Not as frequently seen as "stealing" is when you pay someone to write then claim credit yourself (or give the public appearance of having composed the work yourself) -- think speechwriters, ghostwriters, and jokes writers and lyricists in the entertainment industry.

So maybe you can argue it's "not stealing" if you pay your spouse/children/family members some money -- like an allowance or paying for someone's food, rent, or tuition. "Nope, it's not stealing, just ghostwriting."

[taiwan_girl]

I wonder when speechwriters for policitians first became popular.

Interesting that one of the most famous US speeches is "Gettysburg Address" by President Lincoln, and that was written by himself as he road to the ceremony.

[89th]

To be fair, the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer (CDIO) has a really tough set of job duties:

1. Hang up flags in cafes that mark them as Safe Spaces.
2. Hire people that do not have European ancestry.