What is Plagiarism ?
Plagiarism is an act of Fraud – i.e copying/stealing someone’s work/content or borrowing someone’s original ideas/thoughts . But “copying” and “borrowing” can be a serious offense.
Plagiarism is considered as dishonesty and a breach of ethics.Plagiarism is not only a crime but it can be termed as violation of law towards copyrighting. According to copyright law its a serious ethical offense of copying someone’s ideas, content, thoughts, or expressions. Though Plagiarism is not defined in books of laws or punishable by law, but it is punishable rather by institutions (including associations, educational institutions/colleges, and commercial entities, such as publishing companies all over the world).
What about images, videos, and music?
Using someone’s images/idea of image, videos or a single piece of music in your work or creativity, without getting proper permissions is also termed under plagiarism
The following tasks are very common in now a days. Despite their usage/popularity, they still termed under plagiarism.
- Copying images from someone’s else website and publishing them in your website or papers
- Using copyrighted music or taking small piece from someone else video for making your own videos/music.
- Giving performance of someone’s copyrighted music (i.e., playing a cover).
Modern technology and the expansion of Internet have given everyone an access to lot of information.. Original and unique ideas/concepts have become rarer.Now a days everybody is reproducing other people’s ideas/concepts, and presenting them as their own. To keep a check on this, there are various tools available on internet to detect plagiarism.
Tools Available to detect plagiarism are :
If You are using wordpress website, then You can use following plugins to check plagiarism :
The Law of Plagiarism:
There is no legal law made for plagiarism. But Colleges, Schools, Universities and professionals have the authority to punish anyone who has done plagiarism.
There are many ways they can punish the plagiarists like expulsion from college/university or revoke a degree, can cancel the admission but it all depends upon the Institute how they want this act to be handled.
