2. Plagiarism is different from copyright violation by technicalities. Copyright violation is when you are allowed so much room to use somebody’s work. This mainly deals with the fact that you have to get permission to use the work, which is usually work that has huge media attention, fame, recognition, or anything that is getting big profit in sales. Plagiarism is when you use work yourself, where you don’t have to get permission from the author themselves, and you fail to give credit or cite, where that is your permission from the author.
3. An example of plagiarism that is NOT copyright violation is when a paper is written, especially one of importance- college paper, research, analytic etc.- where you need sources. Failure to have a reference page, or citing page, or any type of citation to that author is plagiarism. Many times when you do not have proper or “to the T” citation, you could get in big trouble for that as well.
4. An example of copyright violation that is NOT plagiarism is when an organization uses a clip from a movie or a part of a song that they do not have permission to use. Even though that organization may be using that movie clip or song bit in a positive way, or even to promote either, they have to get permission. This is because they are advertising that movie or song and that movie or song has rights. Maybe known as royalties, they get and deserve money for whenever it is used to someone else’s benefit.
Hey groupie! I enjoyed reading your post because you answer the questions very well and give great details to your answers. I also think your examples for what is plagiarism but not copyright and vice versa was really good and accurate and was very similar to the examples I gave too. You can tell you really understood the assignment and the discussion in class today.
ReplyDeleteHey group members! I also liked reading you post beacause of how in depth you always answer the questions asked. I also agree that you can blame plagiarism on the lack of knowledge and intruction. I agree with that statement because most times when you hear teachers talk about plagiarism they just state it as like don't copy and paste. And most times they do not go in depth with what exactly is plagiarism and they different kinds of it!
ReplyDeleteI agree. I feel plagiarism taking another persons work and calling it your own without giving them credit. I like the way you answered your questions you gave great examples on plagiarizing and citation violations!
ReplyDeletePlagiarism vs. copyright violation is more than technicalities. Plagiarism is all about giving credit. So failing to cite your sources in a research paper is plagiarism because you're not giving credit to the sources where you found the information you're telling us.
ReplyDeleteCopyright is all about permission to make and distribute copies or publicly perform a piece, whether you give credit or not. So, your example of copyright violation without plagiarism is right because the organization is usually not claiming to have created the video clip they're using. They're not taking credit for having done the creative work, they're just giving a public performance of the work without getting (usually = paying for) permission.
Citing your source does not equal getting permission to use the piece. There is a lot of grey area in copyright law... So you're allowed to use small chunks of a larger work for certain purposes (education, research, critiques) under what's called "fair use". If you use too large of a chunk or use it for the wrong purposes, though, it doesn't matter if you cite your source, you can still get sued for copyright violation.