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cooksourced

Plagiarizing content and republishing it as your own, as Cooks Source magazine allegedly did to blogger Monica Gaudio, as recounted on her Live Journal.

Bonus points if you also tell the person you lifted the work from that they should be grateful to you for editing their original.
-Dude! You can't turn that paper into to your comparative web class. You cooksourced it from Daring Fireball.

--Yes, but I edited that jerks words and made it better, so it's all good.
by Guy Grand November 5, 2010
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Cookssourced

To reprint or reproduce, with attribution and while adding mistakes, a copyrighted work. If confronted by the owner of the creative work, it is customary to demand payment from them for the added errors.
I know. It's already been Cookssourced. In a New Yorker cartoon. I have to pay them $10 because they spelled my name wrong.
by indignantwriter November 5, 2010
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cooksourced

Stealing copyrighted material without contacting or compensating the original author.
Wow, great poem, Dave! You actually wrote that?" "No, I cooksourced it from Billy Collins on the Internet to impress a girl.
by Sedagive November 6, 2010
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