Plagiarism Vs. Copyright

By: Kira Michelson-Bartlett

Copyright

Copyright controls an

idea

It demands permission for use

Not honoring copyright is

theft

Legal action can be taken

Because

It’s a crime

You could face jail time or fines

Courts enforce Copyright

infringement

Copyright and Copyleft

There must be

a balance

Copyleft is a way of not honoring copyright like

GirlTalk

“The best way to spread knowledge, according to Condorcet, was through

authorless and open-ended texts, circulating freely between all

citizens”-Carla Hesse

Copyright and

Plagiarism are similar but not the

same

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is not a crime, but it is the failure to cite your

source

It is stealing someone else’s ideas…

And calling them your own

Schools and

institutions

enforce plagiaris

m

Plagiarism is

Personal

• “Too much of what we now protect under the guise of

authorship is not creativity or innovation, but merely

investment.”-Rosemary Coombe

Copyright is Impersonal

Works Cited.

Coombe, Rosemary J. “Fear, Hope, and Longing for the Future of Authorship and a Revitalized Public Domain in Global Regimes of Intellectual Property.” DePaul Law Review 52(Summer 2003): 1171-91

Hesse, Carla. 1996. pg. 24. Bolter, David Jay. “Writing Spaces.” The Georgia Institute of Technology (2001).