Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Plagiarism & Copyright.
In my own words, I believe plagiarism is deliberately copying someone else's credit in papers, journals and books. Your taking credit for someone else's thoughts and ideas, which can lead you into a lot of trouble. If your going to use someone else's idea, you need to cite them adequately. The difference in copyright from plagiarism is, copyright is using someone's creative work such as music video's, songs, photography without authorization from the author. The similarity for both is punishment for committing both crimes. A law suit could be filed, one can be sued, a student can be expelled from school/university, also you can face court for your wrong doings. An example of plagiarism that isn't copyright would be not citing the author in your work, through copy wright you are asking the original owner for permission, not giving him credit. An example of copyright and not plagiarism is a tribute and also buying the rights but placing your name on it. To avoid being in trouble for plagiarism be smart and don't copy and past your work, your just asking for trouble that way. I have learned enough from high school that it's illegal to plagiarise other people's papers now.
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Plagiarism is using another person's work and calling it your own. It can also be using another person's ideas and giving them credit but doing so incorrectly. Copying and pasting is obvious but sometimes plagiarism can be an issue but the writer is unaware they have violated the rules. It is not always intentional therefore we, as students, should also be very careful to avoid plagiarism. I think the key is to correctly cite your source and be honest about where the ideas came from.
ReplyDeleteYea Plagiarism is really a big problem it is occurring all over the place many people trying to take others work. But then the person who took the other people work gets a rude awakening when a law suit is filed and they lose tons of money for copying. Yea they do go into extreme detail in high school so by college time you already have heard it tons of times.
ReplyDeleteClarifying your examples:
ReplyDeleteSo if you get permission from the author to copy and paste their whole paper, but don't cite them, that's plagiarism but not copyright violation, right?
For copyright violation that is not plagiarism, though, doing a tribute and giving credit to the original author would keep you clear of plagiarism... The copyright violation in that case would be if you didn't buy the rights to perform the song. If you do pay for permission to use the song and give credit, then you're good on both fronts!