This is the first blog to be posted on my feed since my "Self-Introduction". This time, I, the Internet Warrior, will be speaking about today's topic and one that will you might be interested in: plagiarism.
Very recently, YouTube, one of the most popular websites in the Internet, is under constant threat because videos everywhere in the site are under danger by various third-party entertainment companies and funding corporations don't respect the legitimacy of the videos' owners that they respect the original source materials and give credit to the original owners of the materials the video uploaders are lending. It is called "Fair Use". It is a legal doctrine where a person creates something that is directly or indirectly inspired by a copyrighted source material in a limited process without any permission from the copyright owner. It's not plagiarism if you make something out of something else and give credit to the one who has fulls rights that "something else", as long as you don't take the whole thing and make it like it's your thing. But no, those numbnuts still think that Fair Use is an act of plagiarism.
So, what is plagiarism?
Basically, plagiarism is an act of stealing where a person literally copies one's work and claims it as his/her own material. Simply put, plagiarism is where you take something and make it yours without giving any consent to the original owner whatsoever.
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| Fun fact: Plagiarizer is a layman's term for thief. |
For example, if you copy-pasted a whole research paper from another classmate and submitted it to your tutor, that would be plagiarism. Even if you swapped, changed or deleted some words, phrases or paragraphs and altered the structure of the paper, the fact is still up that you stole the entire thing and the meaning there as a whole is still strong.
Another example of which is you used a quotation from a famous figure like Sir Isaac Newton or Aristotle to justify validity on your claim or work, but you didn't credit who actually made that quote. That is like imitating everything what a person sitting beside you says like a four-year old. It's annoying.
Plagiarism is not creative, intelligent or intuitive at all. You claim that you learn a thing or two from the source you're "referencing", but in reality, you just cut and pasted everything without taking a look and reflection to learn what you are supposed to know and what you are doing. You thought you could just copy it all off straight from the Internet, say you did your homework and you're off the hook? You're just letting yourself fail.
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| Teacher: Who do you think I am? Mr. Crocker? I'm giving you a SUPER F! |
Indeed, theft is a crime, and so is plagiarism, which is another form of robbery. It's bad enough that a submitted work is immediately taken down once it is proven that it is a plagiarized product. But there are serious dire consequences that could result from plagiarism.
The last day, March 2, 2016, a former graduate in the Graduate School of the Penn State University was revoked of the Ph.D degree due to the evidences of source material theft against the plagiarized work that was handed over a year ago. The perpetrator's name remains anonymous to the public, but that was a justified example that something cannot be done without permission or credit to the people who you owe appreciation to. Plagiarism may seem as "not a big deal" to you, but in actuality, it is an act that not only breaks apart the reputation as a trustworthy and inventive student, but it could also destroy the image of a school a thief's living in as a bastion of education.
So, to conclude this blog, I give away the first of the Internet Warrior's questions to the community:
If you want to have something that belongs to someone else so that you can make something, what would you do to prevent plagiarism?
Leave your interesting and creative responses in the comment section below. And don't forget to add me on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube or DeviantART.
But thanks for reading today's blog! I'm the Internet Warrior and I approve this message.
References:
1.) http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/youtube-fair-use-channel-awesome/
2.) http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_understand_plagiarism_1/0,6622,427065-,00.html
3.) http://sites.jcu.edu/fycomp/pages/plagiarism/the-effects-of-plagiarism/
4.) http://onwardstate.com/2016/03/02/graduate-school-revokes-doctorate-for-plagiarism/
5.) http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QPA_plagiarism.html
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