Is it illegal to wash manuscripts and take part-time jobs?

It's not illegal to wash the manuscript, it's just a matter of degree. It is difficult to have too hard a standard to define whether an article is a manuscript. Washing manuscripts is not the same as plagiarism.

Generally speaking, the so-called manuscript washing is not copying words, but copying logic and narrative lines.

For example, if I take a paragraph from each of the ten articles, and then rewrite it in my own words, add my own things and stew it in a pot, it will be quite difficult to find. The higher the proportion of your own things, the stronger the originality. If it can account for 70% to 80%, you will be embarrassed to say that I edited the manuscript.

In fact, among the types of infringement stipulated in the Copyright Law, there is no such thing as manuscript washing in the news industry. From the external performance of this behavior, it is similar to publishing other people's manuscripts after hiding the original author's information, which is essentially a relatively obscure plagiarism and plagiarism.

In the process of manuscript washing, some reprinted media or individuals conceal the original author of the article after reprinting, or even add, delete or modify some contents, which may also be suspected of infringing on the right of signature, modification and protection of the integrity of the work of the relevant right holders. In addition to assuming the responsibility of stopping the infringement and compensating for the losses, it should also publicly apologize to the relevant right holders.

Recently, the word "manuscript washing" is popular on the Internet, and some people even say that the new media "manuscript washing era" is coming soon. To put it bluntly, "manuscript washing" means tampering with and deleting other people's original content to make it look unrecognizable, but in fact the most valuable part is plagiarism. Nowadays, the media platforms are mixed and chaotic, and many so-called "traffic tuba" have long lost their rules. At the beginning of the rise of online media, a large number of people directly copied other people's reports, comments and literary works for other purposes. Nowadays, the copyright protection measures of the Internet platform have achieved initial results, and this low-level comprehensive plagiarism has been difficult to pass. So some unscrupulous media people came up with the method of "replacing trees with flowers", adjusting the word order of others' original works, changing several synonyms, hastily changing them and marking their own "original works", which is commonly known as "washing manuscripts" There is a large section of "washing the manuscript" in the article, and there is no idea or opinion of my own; He claims to be original, but his ideas, stories and logic are exactly the same as others' articles, except that the protagonist has changed from Zhang San to Li Si, and "She is so happy" has changed to "She is so excited". These superficial efforts to change the soup without changing the medicine are really difficult to "wash" off the essence of plagiarism.