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I found a most interesting discussion regarding plagiarism in an academic and scientific sense. The comments below were comments on a question about someone using another’s ideas as presented in a speech without acknowledging the source. I haven’t edited the comments. You can read the question and all the responses here. It is plagiarism if they present your ideas as their own. If they give you credit in some way then it isn’t plagiarism, even if it isn’t very courteous. Plagiarism is about the proper attribution of ideas. Citation is the way to avoid it. In this case, not enough is known here to make a real judgement, and, you say, they took them in a different direction. Perhaps you have an opportunity, however, to work with them on these ideas jointly so that attribution is no longer an issue. Note that you don’t “own” ideas. Plagiarism isn’t really about “stealing” what another “owns”. It is a concept in scholarship that creators should be recognized. Buffy The National Science Foundation Research Misconduct regulation defines plagiarism as the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results or words without giving appropriate credit. Plagiarism and intellectual property issues are issues of ethics. OK, so as you can see, I have linked the item and the bits I’ve copied. I’ve said before that an idea could not be copyrighted, so it’s perfectly ethical to read three books on a subject and then write your book from memory and notes. If you really want to CYA (cover your …), you can cite the three books as references in yours. It’s the same with blog posts on a niche you want to break into, but it’s better for blog posts to copy snippets, link to the original(s), and comment on the sections you’ve copied. If you’re using PLR, you don’t have to cite or reference anything as you are the legal owner of the document, video, audio, etc. See, creating content isn’t a difficult thing to do at all. It’s all around you, and we’re drowning in the stuff. Grab what you need, use it ethically, and produce reams of it. Regards, P.S. When you use techniques like these to produce your content, you can get it done fast. A bit like this email. All of the content from that article was straight copy/paste. Grammarly wanted to change sentences, words, punctuation, etc. I didn’t permit that as I wanted it to be a direct copy. It’s not perfect, but it didn’t take long to produce. I read the article, copied the bits I wanted, pasted them into the email and curated the ideas. 20 minutes from start to here. I embraced my imperfections and slapped out an email that is probably too long. Learn how to do that yourself with this free book. |
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