Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Plagiarism
To put plagiarism in my own words, i would say that plagiarism is when someone uses someone elses work as their own without crediting the author. This could be in a research paper or, like we discussed in class, music videos. To me there is no excuse to to plagiarize a research paper. It takes less than five minutes to cite your source and most of the databases have the sources cited already. Plagiarism is taking someone's work as your own without crediting the author. Copyright violation is using someone's whole work, but still citing. There is a limit to how much of the work can be used. One or two quotes is not a copyright violation, as long as the quotes are cited correctly. One example of plagiarism that is not a copyright violation is when a person uses a quote from a book and the quote is not properly cited or not cited at all and used as their own work. An example of a copyright violation that is not plagiarism is when a person does a cover of a song and uses the whole song, but the person does give credit to the artist. But because there is a limit to how much of a person's work can be used they are at risk of a copyright violation.
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Great examples! Plagarism is illegal and there is consequences if you use someone else's work without their permisson. I feel as if the two have similar punishments, they both face being sued, and court dates. I used to copy and paste everything in high school but I learned real quick it wasn't going to fly. haha.
ReplyDeleteGood post! Plagiarizing is just pure laziness...your right it only take about 30 seconds to cite a source..there is no excuse. Also sometimes copyright is not intentionally done but you have to suffer the consequences if caught.Colleges are much more strict than high school so stop plagiarizing Kolbey..haha jk!!!
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