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Got this book from bookaholic-blogger Sharon Bakar's Bibliobibuli.

Author Richard A. Posner is a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, who is also a judge at the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Posner specialises in the law and economics of intellectual property, which treat plagiarism as a form of fraud.

I read in the book reviews that, to those who say there is no law against plagiarism itself, Posner dismisses the question of conscious or unconscious "borrowing," and focuses on the legal issues of plagiarism, which have even more serious ramifications in the US legal system: Concealment, fraud, unfair competition, etc.

Reviewing the book, the New York Times says: "The club of people accused of plagiarism gets ever larger." The Seattle Times says: "But with newer plagiarism software on the market, chances that they'll get away with it decrease."

Read I must, it's a little book anyway, only 115 pages. ISBN 037542475X.