Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement

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What exactly is plagiarism? Plagiarism is the act of stealing another person's words or writing and not properly citing the quotes or paraphrase. Plagiarism can happen without realizing what you have done. According to the website Plagiarism.com, "One out of three high school students admitted that they used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment"(Plagiarism) which is an extremely high number. There are ways around plagiarizing with the most important way is to always cite quotations and borrowed material. Another form of copying is "Copyright Infringement" which is defined by the website copyright.gov as being the copying or use of copyrighted material without consent from the copyright owner.(Copyright¬) Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement both deal with taking something that isn't yours without permission and using it as your own, but they also are pretty different from one another. Plagiarism is centralized around taking a sentence or how paper of someone's and calling it yours while Copyright infringement is centralized around using a piece of work that has been copyrighted such as someone using the Disney logo on a shirt and selling them without permission from the Disney Corporation. Committing either of these can make you end up in some serious trouble whether it be with your school or a big corporation. What could possibly happen to someone that plagiarized or did the act of copyright infringement here at State College? During the first few days of every semester the professors campus wide go over the syllabus and tell the students about the academic honesty policy. When dealing with school work Copyright infringement doesn't really have to be focused on as heavily as plagiarism. If the student is not ca... ... middle of paper ... ...n a situation that can and should always be avoided at all cost. Someone should never try to take credit for someone else's hard work and effort. Similarly no one should try to get rich off of someone else's logo without proper consent. With all of this being said about plagiarism and copyright infringement, people should really strive to just be original! Be original since you were not born a clone or born to be someone else. Works Cited Copyright . 2008 Jul 1. Copyright United States Copyright Office [Internet]. Washington(DC):U.S. Copyright Office; [2013 Dec 27, cited 2014 Jan 22] . Available from: http://www.copyright.gov/ Farmer, S.B. 2014. General Botany Syllabus. Tifton(GA):ABAC Plagiarism. What Is Plagiarism? [Internet]. 1998 Mar 19. Oakland(CA):iParadigms, LLC; [2012 Jun 30, cited 2014 Jan 21] . Available from: http://www.plagiarism.org/

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