Plagiarism 2.0

First of all, if you aren’t familiar with the term of plagiarism, it means to claim somebody’s work for your own and/or not give the original author any credit.
I’ve recently been playing this app called Episode where you can choose a story and make your own decisions throughout the game. In the app, you can also write your own stories and have them published so that other people can take part in your written episode. But this can only work if you agree to the Terms and Conditions. Naturally, I wouldn’t read anything because I think it’s just the usual stuff: no swear words, nothing too inappropriate, etc. But my dad read the Terms and Conditions, and he didn’t skip reading anything. Turns out that if you write an interesting story Episode can take it and publish it without asking for permission, change it however they want, and above all, they don’t say that you wrote the story. This is plagiarism people! Also, if you write a story that is originally written by someone else and Episode gets sued for plagiarism, Episode will sue you for causing them trouble.
I honestly think that this is a whole new level of plagiarism. Just think about it: If you write a good story Episode says takes all the credit, and if you copy another story Episode gives you all the credit.
What’s the point in writing the story if you don’t get any credit, and if you right a story that’s like another story you get in trouble for it. I’m so glad my dad read the Terms and Conditions to write a story on Episode, otherwise I would have written a story and would’ve gotten absolutely NO credit for it.

What do you think about the way Episode causes and deals with plagiarism?

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