pla.gia.rize - defined

Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:42 by Blair

I am posting this in case the individual who recently copied and pasted entire posts from my blog into her/his own is unaware of the definition of plagiarism.

 

Webster’s Definition

Main Entry: pla·gia·rize
transitive senses : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source
intransitive senses : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
- pla·gia·riz·er noun

 

It is illegal for anyone to violate any of the rights provided by the copyright law to the owner of copyright.”  Copyright Basics

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