[WikiEN-l] WikiEN-l Digest, Vol 31, Issue 130

Steve Bennett stevage at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 07:39:59 UTC 2006


On 2/16/06, Steven Ericsson Zenith <steven at semeiosis.com> wrote:
> Plagiarism does have something to do with the law if it is a breach of
> copyright.  I assume that the banned editor is hostile, so being
> defensive may be prudent.

Copyright is copyright, plagiarism is plagiarism. Copying a single
sentence from a large work without attribution is plagiarism, but not
copyright violation. Reproducing a famous photo in high resolution
with attribution but not permission is copyright violation, but not
plagiarism.

Steve



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