Though plagiarism is not referred to crimes, it is closely connected with copyright and may result in the same lawsuits. Both plagiarism and copyright have many ethical issues. In any case, if you try to use one’s work, idea or statement and avoid citing it is considered a literary theft. So when we speak about ethics of these, both avoiding copyright and plagiarism is stealing. Each original work is protected by copyright laws and violating intellectual property you commit a crime.
Plagiarism is a rather wide notion; so many people can mix notions and consider customary for modern world types of plagiarism a suitable means of creating something “new”. Most of people are simply not aware of other types of plagiarism apart from copy-paste, like paraphrasing; omission of citation of quotation marks; “mosaic plagiarism”: composing a text from borrowed phrases from someone’s text etc. All of these ways are only a useless effort to present somebody’s work as yours and almost each of them can be detected by plagiarism checkers. In any case, if you make intentional efforts to use one’s work, this action can be considered a literary theft. Each original work is protected by copyright laws and violating intellectual property you commit a crime.
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Though plagiarism is not referred to crimes, it is closely connected with copyright and may result in the same lawsuits. Both plagiarism and copyright have many ethical issues. In any case, if you try to use one’s work, idea or statement and avoid citing it is considered a literary theft. So when we speak about ethics of these, both avoiding copyright and plagiarism is stealing. Each original work is protected by copyright laws and violating intellectual property you commit a crime.
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Plagiarism is a rather wide notion; so many people can mix notions and consider customary for modern world types of plagiarism a suitable means of creating something “new”. Most of people are simply not aware of other types of plagiarism apart from copy-paste, like paraphrasing; omission of citation of quotation marks; “mosaic plagiarism”: composing a text from borrowed phrases from someone’s text etc. All of these ways are only a useless effort to present somebody’s work as yours and almost each of them can be detected by plagiarism checkers. In any case, if you make intentional efforts to use one’s work, this action can be considered a literary theft. Each original work is protected by copyright laws and violating intellectual property you commit a crime.
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