Those who don’t create intellectual property should respect the creations of those who do
The article discusses the importance of respecting intellectual property and the consequences of plagiarism. It highlights the growing trend of individuals disregarding the rights of creators, particularly in the context of using AI-generated content. The author emphasizes that stealing intellectual property is akin to stealing physical property and calls for greater awareness and respect for the work of artists and writers.
- ▪The author shares a personal story about learning the importance of honesty and the consequences of stealing.
- ▪Many people today fail to recognize that stealing intellectual property is a crime.
- ▪The article critiques a university's guidance on using AI-generated content, arguing it encourages theft of intellectual property.
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| Original publisher | The Globe and Mail |
| Canonical URL | https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-artificial-intelligence-intellectual-property-work-students-university/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-04-29T09:06:54.500Z |
| Last seen | 2026-04-29T09:06:54.500Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
ShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountSusan Glickman is a novelist and poet living in Toronto.Back in 1959, when I was finally permitted to walk the five blocks to school without adult supervision, my friend Karen introduced me to a new game called “snitching.” Its rules were simple: Grab some penny candy from the display at Mr. Lou’s corner store when he was busy with a customer, then leave without paying for it. Like most children my age, I had a sweet tooth; unlike most, I was infallibly naive. So naive that I told my mother about this entertaining activity, only to be mortified when she reframed it as “stealing” and marched me back to the store to apologize to Mr.
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