You may also find these discussions of interest (there are likely more) ...

https://steemit.com/steemit-ideas/@ash/idea-protect-content-owners
https://steemit.com/steem/@tuck-fheman/what-is-original-content-to-steemians
https://steemit.com/steem/@tuck-fheman/verified-accounts--reputation-system

I would also like to note that months ago this very topic was discussed and many here encouraged others to post the full article here on Steemit, with a link to the source and credit to the original author. Their basic idea, from what I remember, was that it would encourage the original author to post their articles here on Steemit. We've tried several methods from this tuck-fheman account.

• Post the articles top tagline and link to source. (this was originally frowned upon)
• Post a paragraph from the article and link to source. (this was later frowned upon)
• Post entire article, link to source and give all proceeds earned to the author in an attempt to bring them to Steemit. (TBD)
• Post a summary of the article in your own words and link to the original article. (widely accepted to date)
• Write your own article on the topic. (highly recommended)

From what we've read and discussed in the past, there are very differing opinions on how posting others work should be handled on Steemit. Recently there has been a push to downvote any blatantly plagiarized content that does not at least link to the original source or note the original author. We have done this on several occasions using this tool to determine where the article originated.

There is one account in particular that has been plagiarizing articles so we've focused on that account most times, but generally any well written article by a new member to Steem is vetted by someone like @fav or others. As you can see from the first link above this is a topic of interest for many here and we are looking for a way to combat this theft of content (for profit) outside of the Community manually filtering articles.

Crossposting is another topic that's debated from time to time. The hashtag #OSC has been used by many to designate a post as "Original Steem Content" and any crosspost should be noted as such at the top of the article. In theory a crosspost should earn less than any OSC posted here. Some writers have begun to modify their crosspost adding extra content to freshen up the original article, which is a nice touch and should be rewarded more than a simple crosspost.

Once Steem has the ability to verify accounts and possibly have a reputation system it should be easier to determine which accounts are legitimately crossposting their content or taking credit for post as a widely known author, which generally are rewarded more simply because of their reputation outside of Steemit.

As we discuss these topics more and more we should be able to come to a consensus on how to properly handle each one of these and hopefully have the tools to automate our curation. Otherwise we can usually rely on some of the more reputable Community members to weed out the posers and plagiarizers.