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An Anchor podcast called Soldier of Misfortune ▸ has been accused of being a shameless rip-off by Brendan I Koerner, a journalist for The Atlantic who wrote the story. His piece took him nine years to report, he says, and he accuses the podcaster, Jesse Rapaport, of knowingly stealing his work, and even pronouncing the name of the main character wrong throughout. “Perhaps we can start a frank discussion about what constitutes fair use for podcasters?” Koerner asks. We’ve approached Rapaport for comment; plagiarism has unfortunately been a recurring theme for many years.
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