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The publishing clause that makes authors pay for plagiarism

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When authors sign a deal, they legally absorb all the liability. Hidden deep in standard publishing boilerplate is a terrifying indemnification clause stating that if the author accidentally or purposefully plagiarizes material and the publisher gets sued, the author is financially responsible for paying every single cent of the publisher's legal defense fees.

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