Dear Care and Feeding: She is very, very concerned about fairness.
My 7-year-old daughter just came excitedly running to me with a magazine that publishes work by young authors, in which she’d recognized a familiar poem. She’s at that stage where she is very, very concerned about fairness, and right versus wrong.
Sure enough, the poem—supposedly by a 10-year-old girl in a distant state—is identical to a poem in a 1970s collection of children’s poetry by a famous author, which I inherited from my mom and my daughter inherited from me. She knows it’s wrong to claim someone else’s art or writing as your own, and she wants to see this girl get in trouble. The magazine is a couple of months old, and there has been no notice/retraction/etc. in more recent issues. Is it a good idea to let my daughter write to the editors to let them know?
My concern is that we have no idea what kind of background this girl comes from, and I’d hate to risk getting her beaten or otherwise disproportionately punished for something that, in the big scheme of things, is inconsequential. But I’d also hate to give my own daughter the impression that plagiarism is something that should just be shrugged off. My other thought was that the young “author” has a very uncommon name, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find her parents’ address.
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