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Plagiarism: Wikipedia defines it as ” It is the use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work”.

Indulging is Plagiarism, or copyright infringement etc is not only unethical, but it also denies one the opportunity to progress knowledge, learn, develop and so on. Rather than get credit(s) one looses credibility too.

How Can People Avoid Plagiarism?
1. Paraphrase it properly giving due credit and reference.
2.you must give credit whenever you use
another person’s idea, opinion, or theory; any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge; quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words.

Plagiarism is unethical and discouraged:
because
a)plagiarism by students/professors or researchers is considered academic dishonesty or academic fraud and offenders are subject to academic censure.
b)In journalism, plagiarism is considered a breach of journalistic ethics, and reporters caught plagiarizing typically face disciplinary measures ranging from suspension to termination.

The Internet, where articles appear as soft has made the physical act of copying the work of others much easier, simply by copying and pasting text from one web page to another.

copyright :
Plagiarism is not copyright infringement. While both terms may apply to a particular act, they are different transgressions.
Copyright infringement is a violation of the rights of a copyright holder, when material protected by copyright is used without consent. On the other hand, plagiarism is concerned with the unearned increment to the plagiarizing author’s reputation that is achieved through false claims of authorship.

References:
wikipedia

- Posted on November 3rd, 2008 in Pages | 2,309 Views |

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One Response to “Plagiarism, intellectual property, copyright and ethics”


1. Posted byShaun Sayers on November 8th, 2008 at 3:40 pm

I blogged about plagiarism a while back. I was basically getting a bit hacked off at the time by a rival (and ex-employer) trying to replicate my every twist and turn, albeit in a very clumsy way

That’s not important and I’m over it now anyway, but perhaps the most interesting part of the article is the Youtube clip I found of Stewart Lee exploring the phenomena of plagiarism in stand-up comedy. Click on the image in this post. Funny and an excellent way to make a point

http://blog.capablepeople.co.uk/blog/Innovation/_archives/2008/1/12/3461109.html



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