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What exactly is plagiarism?
Does plagiarism apply only to copyrighted material? To what extent does plagiarism apply?
If someone made a joke and someone else told the joke is that plagiarism? Or if someone writes a story online and someone else steals the plot, characters, and main events but puts it in their own words is that plagiarism?
I have a basic understanding of plagiarism. That being when you claim someone else's work as your own. But to what extent?
Maybe I'm just thinking to hard about it but thanks in advance!
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Any idea that originated from another person's mind that is not given appropriate credit is considered plagiarized.
That is, if you borrow an idea for a paper to help support your thesis statement, put it in your own words, and misrepresent it as your original idea, you're plagiarizing.
Technically, plagiarism does only apply to copyrighted material unless one author can prove that an idea was his/hers first. That's part of what copyrighting does for people - it gives the original author (or whoever achieved copyright) the right to distribute/copy it and take credit for it.
However, there's kind of a moral issue with even stuff that isn't copyrighted. It's just not cool to take credit for someone else's hard work.
Would you take someone else's grapes and give them to other people as if they were yours? Doubtful.
Should you take someone else's idea and allow others to think you came up with it? Absolutely not.
Hope this helps. :)
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I don't think plagiarism only apply's to copyrighted
material it could apply to someone stealing another
person's work in school or even on the internet books magazines or journals there's many things it could apply too i don't think if someone elese told a joke then that'd be considered plagiarism yes i think if another person stole the plot characters & main events of a story and put it in their own words i think that'd be considered a form of plagiarism because they'd be stealing it without the authors knowledge(:
Hope i helped
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