Internet Plagiarism
Running head: INTERNET PLAGIARISM 1
Internet Plagiarism
Anna Pindell
Devry University
INTERNET PLAGIARISM 2 Plagiarism, copyright laws and social networking. Social and professional networking sites have changed the way we connect and network to other people. It has become a necessity to utilize these sources as a way to communicate and express our thoughts, ideas and interests often by posting a written statement or image. Too often these expressions are stolen without the knowledge of the original source. Plagiarism is considered fraud and idea stealing is an act of plagiarism. Copyright law must be used in conjunction with the rules of plagiarism to protect the expressions made by people on social networking sites. Plagiarism can take on many forms. According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to “plagiarize” means: • to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. • to use (another’s production) without crediting the source. • to commit literary theft. • to present as new and original an idea product derived from an existing source.
Simply put, plagiarism is an act of copying and it has been around for centuries, even before the invention of the printing press by German inventor Johannes Gutenburg around 1450 A.D. Historians say that there was very little regard for authorship and that scholars and other authors liberally copied works from others using scissors and paste. In the 17th century during a sequence of internecine wars between England, Scotland, and Ireland, Monarch Charles I was tried and sentenced to death and Britain was ruled by
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republican systems that often ignored patents and licensing and allowed the book trade to expand. Poor writers were paid to use the works of more successful writers in order to create journals and pamphlets that could be sold at a profit. Publishing pirates often reprinted original best selling
Internet Plagiarism
Anna Pindell
Devry University
INTERNET PLAGIARISM 2 Plagiarism, copyright laws and social networking. Social and professional networking sites have changed the way we connect and network to other people. It has become a necessity to utilize these sources as a way to communicate and express our thoughts, ideas and interests often by posting a written statement or image. Too often these expressions are stolen without the knowledge of the original source. Plagiarism is considered fraud and idea stealing is an act of plagiarism. Copyright law must be used in conjunction with the rules of plagiarism to protect the expressions made by people on social networking sites. Plagiarism can take on many forms. According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to “plagiarize” means: • to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. • to use (another’s production) without crediting the source. • to commit literary theft. • to present as new and original an idea product derived from an existing source.
Simply put, plagiarism is an act of copying and it has been around for centuries, even before the invention of the printing press by German inventor Johannes Gutenburg around 1450 A.D. Historians say that there was very little regard for authorship and that scholars and other authors liberally copied works from others using scissors and paste. In the 17th century during a sequence of internecine wars between England, Scotland, and Ireland, Monarch Charles I was tried and sentenced to death and Britain was ruled by
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republican systems that often ignored patents and licensing and allowed the book trade to expand. Poor writers were paid to use the works of more successful writers in order to create journals and pamphlets that could be sold at a profit. Publishing pirates often reprinted original best selling
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