CBS Sunday Morning's featured story on plagiarism included intimate interviews with infamous plagiarists Quentin Rowan and Jayson Blair, and includes a brief conversation with Turnitin CEO Chris Caren.

Quentin Rowan authored his first novel, "Assassin of Secrets" in 2011 and was found to largely be a mash-up of 20 different books including popular James Bond titles. "There are stretches that go for maybe 10-15 pages, where the only thing changed are the names," Rowan said.

 

For Jayson Blair, at the time a reporter for the New York Times, plagiarism was a slippery slope. He started off small and got away with—so he pressed. "Once you realize that you can get away with something, once you cross over that line, you somehow have to rationalize how I'm a good person and I did this," said Blair in his interview. "So somehow this has to be okay. I've got to make this okay. So then it becomes a lot easier to do it."