Saturday, October 20, 2012

one paragraph of whether the plagiarizing or infringing copyright


In recent time, plagiarism and copyright infringement are the very popular topics to discuss in public. There is a hot topic which is the differences between the plagiarism and the copyright infringement. Specifically speaking, plagiarism and copyright infringement can be different in legitimization which is I think is a main difference. In other words, plagiarism does not apply to the law. In “the plagiarism is not a big moral deal”, the author Stanley Fish claim that the plagiarism is a rule of the academic rules that everyone who participate in academia should follow rather than a moral issue which refer to plagiarism can be judged by the people’s stereotype. Namely, plagiarism is not applicable to the law. Moreover, in the Salon.com, the author Charles Cronin points out that there is a copyright law to protect the people’s intellectual property from being offended by other people which refer to the copyright infringement by using the music copyright infringement as a example. In contrast, other groups of people argue that the main difference between copyright infringement and plagiarism is the definition of these two behaviors. In Salon.com, The professor Jonathan Zittrain insist that plagiarism is a lie about copying from other people’s work, yet the copyright is the behavior that a people copy other’s work. In conclusion, there could numerous of differences that plagiarism and the copyright infringement have, so this topic can be continually discussed in the future.

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