Word For The Day: Plagiarism, Copyright Infringement, Intellectual Property
Originally posted by me: Littlemouse Vision Quest™ in a Ning Group on Feb. 28, 2010
Plagiarism: Usage of someone else's words without permission.
There are people or organizations that will give permission to use their words provided there is a citation giving them credit.
If you copy someone else's words or even definitions and paste it somewhere else; you are plagiarizing and that is very easy to see on the Internet and you could be banned from a search engine such as Google or start receiving notices to "cease and desist."
In addition,© copyright belongs to the author or person with the original idea expressed in print.
Don't copy from a forum blog board like this one and place people's words someplace else.
These comments of mine will be time stamped the moment I hit submit. If you were to copy the information to place in your personal blog then you are doing two things: Copyright Infringement and Plagiarism and some small business people might scream theft of Intellectual Property.
All a person needs to do is take any sentence they have written and place it in a search engine. (Sometimes I use the whole first paragraph.) If it is indexed out there it will show up. It will tell you everyone who has lifted and using another's words and the time stamps and even the cache link (or last time crawled) will give you an idea who is the original content owner. (At least on the Internet.)
Update editing: March 8, 2023
