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Plagiarism Vs. Copyright
By: Kira Michelson-Bartlett
Copyright
Copyright controls an
idea
It demands permission for use
Not honoring copyright is
theft
Legal action can be taken
Because
It’s a crime
You could face jail time or fines
Courts enforce Copyright
infringement
Copyright and Copyleft
There must be
a balance
Copyleft is a way of not honoring copyright like
GirlTalk
“The best way to spread knowledge, according to Condorcet, was through
authorless and open-ended texts, circulating freely between all
citizens”-Carla Hesse
Copyright and
Plagiarism are similar but not the
same
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is not a crime, but it is the failure to cite your
source
It is stealing someone else’s ideas…
And calling them your own
Schools and
institutions
enforce plagiaris
m
Plagiarism is
Personal
• “Too much of what we now protect under the guise of
authorship is not creativity or innovation, but merely
investment.”-Rosemary Coombe
Copyright is Impersonal
Works Cited.
Coombe, Rosemary J. “Fear, Hope, and Longing for the Future of Authorship and a Revitalized Public Domain in Global Regimes of Intellectual Property.” DePaul Law Review 52(Summer 2003): 1171-91
Hesse, Carla. 1996. pg. 24. Bolter, David Jay. “Writing Spaces.” The Georgia Institute of Technology (2001).