The Seriousness and Importance of Plagiarisms

With the widespread access of the Internet today, online postings has become one of the leading trends for users such as authors, journalists, politicians and others  to publish or share their information. Somehow, as the online search engine do mix and match for the relevant searched issues, it is hard for these publishers to guarantee their assets for being stole or imitated by other users online. 

Source from: http://gulzar05.blogspot.com/2009_09_01_archive.html

I can assure that most of the people do understand the seriousness of getting plagiarism. However, although they understood the regulations, these users don’t abide it but continue to commit the same actions without the originals’ citations. As More& Shelar (2011, p.466) and  Adhikari(2010, p.77) indicated, plagiarism can be referred as the act of take over from the writings, ideas, methods of another person, without the acknowledgement of the originals and use the works as one’s own, which happened to be an act of fraud or copyright infringement. However, thanks to also the rapid development of technologies, plagiarism detectors or checkers were invented to “determine the extent of originality of and plagiarism in the specimen articles” (Japos,Gutierrez & Tubongbanua 2011 p.52) that able to protect the originals’ assets.

But ultimately, the most important thing is still the self-consciousness of those referrers when they intend to use others’ ideas as their own. As Bartlett & Casselden(2011 p.35) supported in guiding the originality of students’ works, “students should take ultimate responsibility for ensuring their work avoided plagiarism, and that this responsibility followed the provision of plagiarism instruction/guidance from the academic institution”. In such circumstance, when a student’s works occurred in plagiarism, he/she would be accused and got penalty of 0 marks for their works, or even got blacklisted that might influence the future potential employment opportunities of the student. But, what if the plagiarisms that accused in the society? The aftermath of the deceivers could be sued by the originals or imposed a fine through those rules and regulations of copyright, as reported in the news of ‘Copy Mart sued for copyright infringement’ (Kettering, 2011).

Quoted from http://www.su-spectator.com/news/copy-mart-sued-for-copyright-infringement-1.2632624

Of course, I’m not saying that it is wrong to take the ideas from others, but instead of using the same sentences, words, or writing patterns, the referrers could cite the works and add on his/her personal ideas or opinions in criticism to come out something new that might different that the originals. 

References

1.  Adhikari, N. 2010, ‘Avoiding Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism’, Journal of Nepal Paediatric Society, vol. 30, Issue 2, pp. 77 – 78, [online], Available at: <http://www.uj.ac.za/EN/Faculties/humanities/about/HumanitiesStaff/Documents/Plagiarism/Avoiding%20Plagiarism%20and%20Self%20Plagiarism%20-%20Neelam%20Adhikari.pdf>, [Accessed on 9^th November 2011].

2.   Bartlett, R. & Casselden, B. 2011, ‘An investigation into the attitudes of academic librarians towards Internet plagiarism of HE students’, Library and Information Research, vol. 35, no. 110, pp. 29 – 42, [online], Available at: <http://northumbria.openrepository.com/northumbria/bitstream/10145/142311/2/bartlett_Internet%20plagiarism%20of%20HE%20students.pdf>, [Accessed on 14^th November 2011].

3.  Japos, G.V. Gutierrez, B.A & Tubongbanua, J.B.P. 2011, ‘Efficacy of Plagiarism Detection Software for Quality Assurance of a Research Journal’, IAMURE: International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, vol. 1, pp. 48 – 60, [online], Available at: <http://www.eisrjc.com/journals/journal_1/iamure-vol-1.pdf#page=56>, [Accessed on 14^th November 2011].

4.     Kettering, S. 2011, ‘Copy Mart sued for copy infringement’, The Spectator, [online], Available at: <http://www.su-spectator.com/news/copy-mart-sued-for-copyright-infringement-1.2632624#.TsExm0Mr2so>, [Accessed on 14^th November 2011].

5.    More, T & Shelar, V. 2011, ‘Plagiarism and Copyright Violation: A Need of Information Literacy Framework towards Ethical Use of Information’, 8^th International CALIBER 2011, INFLIBNET Centre, Ahmedabad, pp. 465 – 478, [online], Available at: <http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/dxml/bitstream/handle/1944/1640/48.pdf?sequence=1>, [Accessed on 8^th November 2011].