What causes the frequent plagiarism of online literature?

First, the interests are at work: compared with traditional literature, the flow of online literature directly affects income and often requires frequent updates by authors. In order to win online readers in many works, under the control of their own lack of originality and utilitarian mentality, online writers take risks.

Second, the nature is special: the popular online novels are fixed in types and routines, and many works are historical themes of overhead crossing, romance and beauty, which gives some similar plots a good explanation space. Even now, there are so-called very mature "writing artifacts". Some authors use scientific and technological means to automatically generate novels by using writing software.

Third, lack of standardization: lack of standardized writing education is an important reason for frequent plagiarism. It is easy to judge by borrowing good words, but it is difficult to judge whether plagiarism belongs to the plot of others. For this practice, there is a special term in the online community, which is called "washing the manuscript" or "melting the stalk".

Fourth, the mechanism is not perfect: the anti-plagiarism mechanism of the online literature platform is not perfect, and the original protection needs to be strengthened. Especially for some small-scale online literature websites, there are almost no decent plagiarism detection methods, as long as you register your account to post. This seemingly "relaxed" but conniving environment has also made some authors who have plagiarized.

Fifth, it is difficult to protect rights: the low cost of infringement and the difficulty of protecting rights also make online literature plagiarism popular. The current state is that the cost of safeguarding rights is very high, and the price paid by the infringer is very small. Most of the infringed parties can only choose silence and patience, at least psychologically acquiesce to the fact that "rights can't be won back".