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====Plagiarism and copyright infringement==== |
====Plagiarism and copyright infringement==== |
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[[Image:Plagiarism.jpg|thumb|It is not permitted to pretend the work composed by another person is your own, even if it is "out of copyright" and "in the public domain".]] |
[[Image:Plagiarism.jpg|thumb|It is not permitted to pretend the work composed by another person is your own, even if it is "out of copyright" and "in the public domain".]] |
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Plagiarism is not the same as [[Wikipedia:Copyright violations|copyright infringement]]: material can be plagiarized from both copyrighted and [[public domain]] sources.<ref>{{cite book | last = Fishman | first = Stephen | title = Public domain: how to find & use copyright-free writings, music, art & more | edition = 4th, illustrated revised | publisher = Nolo | year = 2008 | isbn = 1413308589 | page = 35 | quote = To avoid charges of plagiarism, authors of scholarly works...always give proper credit to the sources of their ideas and facts, as well as any words they borrow. This is so even if the work borrowed from is in the public domain.}}</ref> One report about a plagiarism scandal on Wikipedia claimed that "Wikipedia editors ... declared a handful [of the allegedly plagiarized articles] to be OK because copied passages came from the public domain."<ref name=plagiarism>{{cite news |first=Anick |last=Jesdanun |title= Wikipedia Critic Finds Copied Passages |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking-news/plagiarism-uncovered-on-wikipedia/2006/11/04/1162340080487.html |agency= Associated Press |work=The Syndney Morning Herald |date= 4 November 2006 |accessdate=6 April 2009}}</ref> If this was indeed the reaction of Wikipedia editors, they were mistaken. To clarify this, think of the famous opening line of [[Jane Austen]]'s novel ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813): "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."<ref>{{cite book |title=Pride and Prejudice |last=Austen |first=Jane |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=s1gVAAAAYAAJ |authorlink=Jane Austen |year= 1914 | origyear=First published 1813 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |location=Chicago |page=1|accessdate= 18 March 2009 }}</ref> The text of this novel, like the text of the 1911 ''[[Encyclopedia Britannica]]'', is in the public domain. However, these are Austen's words and even though she no longer owns the copyright to them, we need to acknowledge that the wording is hers. By inserting this sentence without quotation marks into an article, Wikipedia editors would be plagiarizing Austen. Apart from the ethical need to credit her for her words, Wikipedia has a scholarly duty to inform its readers of the source of such a sentence, including the page number where the sentence can be found in the source. |
Plagiarism is not the same as [[Wikipedia:Copyright violations|copyright infringement]]: material can be plagiarized from both copyrighted and [[public domain]] sources.<ref>{{cite book | last = Fishman | first = Stephen | title = Public domain: how to find & use copyright-free writings, music, art & more | edition = 4th, illustrated revised | publisher = Nolo | year = 2008 | isbn = 1413308589 | page = 35 | quote = To avoid charges of plagiarism, authors of scholarly works ... always give proper credit to the sources of their ideas and facts, as well as any words they borrow. This is so even if the work borrowed from is in the public domain.}}</ref> One report about a plagiarism scandal on Wikipedia claimed that "Wikipedia editors ... declared a handful [of the allegedly plagiarized articles] to be OK because copied passages came from the public domain."<ref name=plagiarism>{{cite news |first=Anick |last=Jesdanun |title= Wikipedia Critic Finds Copied Passages |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking-news/plagiarism-uncovered-on-wikipedia/2006/11/04/1162340080487.html |agency= Associated Press |work=The Syndney Morning Herald |date= 4 November 2006 |accessdate=6 April 2009}}</ref> If this was indeed the reaction of Wikipedia editors, they were mistaken. To clarify this, think of the famous opening line of [[Jane Austen]]'s novel ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' (1813): "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."<ref>{{cite book |title=Pride and Prejudice |last=Austen |first=Jane |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=s1gVAAAAYAAJ |authorlink=Jane Austen |year= 1914 | origyear=First published 1813 |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |location=Chicago |page=1|accessdate= 18 March 2009 }}</ref> The text of this novel, like the text of the 1911 ''[[Encyclopedia Britannica]]'', is in the public domain. However, these are Austen's words and even though she no longer owns the copyright to them, we need to acknowledge that the wording is hers. By inserting this sentence without quotation marks into an article, Wikipedia editors would be plagiarizing Austen. Apart from the ethical need to credit her for her words, Wikipedia has a scholarly duty to inform its readers of the source of such a sentence, including the page number where the sentence can be found in the source. |
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Wikipedia policies say much about [[Wikipedia:Copyright violations|copyright violation]], but far less about plagiarism. The [[Wikipedia:Plagiarism|guideline on the topic]] was written only last year and has yet to be adopted by the community. However, Wikipedia's co-founder [[Jimmy Wales]] took a clear stand on the issue in 2005: "Let me say quite firmly that for me, the legal issues [surrounding plagiarism] are important, but far far far more important are the moral issues. We want to be able, all of us, to point at Wikipedia and say: we made it ourselves, fair and square."<ref>{{cite web | last = Wales | first = Jimmy | date = 28 December 2005 | accessdate = 31 March 2009 | url = http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=33005781 | title = Comment | publisher = Wikipedia}}</ref> |
Wikipedia policies say much about [[Wikipedia:Copyright violations|copyright violation]], but far less about plagiarism. The [[Wikipedia:Plagiarism|guideline on the topic]] was written only last year and has yet to be adopted by the community. However, Wikipedia's co-founder [[Jimmy Wales]] took a clear stand on the issue in 2005: "Let me say quite firmly that for me, the legal issues [surrounding plagiarism] are important, but far far far more important are the moral issues. We want to be able, all of us, to point at Wikipedia and say: we made it ourselves, fair and square."<ref>{{cite web | last = Wales | first = Jimmy | date = 28 December 2005 | accessdate = 31 March 2009 | url = http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&diff=prev&oldid=33005781 | title = Comment | publisher = Wikipedia}}</ref> |
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[http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0130/wedgwood.html Source] |
[http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0130/wedgwood.html Source] |
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::"'''A statement from the receiver, David Carson of Deloitte, confirmed that 480 of the 670 employees have been made redundant'''... |
::"'''A statement from the receiver, David Carson of Deloitte, confirmed that 480 of the 670 employees have been made redundant''' ... At least 100 Waterford Crystal employees are refusing to leave the visitors' gallery at the factory tonight and are staging an unofficial sit-in. '''The employees say they will not be leaving until they meet with Mr Carson'''. '''There were some scuffles at one point and a main door to the visitors' centre was damaged''' ... '''Local Sinn Féin Councillor Joe Kelly, who is one of those currently occupying the visitors' gallery''', said the receiver had told staff he would not close the company while there were interested investors." |
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