It seems you didn't read the article closely.
They didn't just plagiarize the slides, they neutered them, and then attempted to pass them off as Stanford endorsed research; all without permission from the author.
They didn't just plagiarize the slides, they neutered them, and then attempted to pass them off as Stanford endorsed research; all without permission from the author.
So they're derivative works of PPT slides? Does that count as theft? How much do you need to change a slide before it's a new work?
>attempted to pass them off as Stanford endorsed research
As in falsifying a conclusion or reinterpreting the data?