Plagiarism/Copyright
by
Regina S.
copyright 07-16-2003
Age Rating: 1 to 127
Plagiarism- The copying and posting of another persons work without their knowledge or permission. It also applies to rewriting someone elses work. You cannot change a few words and call a work your own, if you’re rewriting a work that’s not your own the lines and stanzas have to be different, and if you do copy a few lines, you have to give credit to the original author.
Copyright- A legal right that allows only the author to publish his/her works. Anyone else publishing the authors works needs their permission to do so. Copyright can also be given, or sold. It allows another person to publish the author’s work, but does not give them right to give permission to anyone else Copyright also expires after 50 years, so works like Shakespeare’s and Edgar Allen Poe’s can be copied as long as you state that it’s not your work.
Basic Rules: 1. You cannot post someone elses work unless you have their permission.
2. If you get the copyright permission, or decide to post a work that’s not your own, you HAVE to give credit to the original author!
3. If you don’t have the copyright permission, but the work is on another website, you can give the address of the website.
4. There is absolutely no copyright infringement (faking copyrights).
5. If the author of a work is unknown, you can copy it as long as you state that it’s not your work.
6. You can add quotes to your works as long as you give credit to the person who quoted it.
7. The direct qoutes of other authors should be encased in double parenthesis.
8. Song lyrics can be used in a work as long as you give credit to the singer and songwriter.
Note: There wasn't an actual meeting of a committee so if anyone has any comments, questions, suggestions, you can leave a comment or e-mail me.
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Gotcha. But what if you found this story in a book by Anynomus. I found a story in a book by Anynomus, but I completely changed all the words, characters, etc.and just copied the main idea. I give credit to Anynomus for the main idea or do I just not include it altogether?
The song lyrics one isn't exactly true. I've been writing fanfiction for a good few years, and have a songfic up on my page, and unless you make money off of the work, you are allowed to use the song and any information about it, so long as you give credit to the band/writer/producer or whichever of three you choose who did the song. Just a small note on credits. Like if you write fanfiction, you are, under US federal law, supposed to put up a notice on the top of ALL fanfiction works that states that work does not belong to you, and who it belongs to.
eg: I write GW fanfiction. And on top of all works on all sites, it is a requirement to post something along these lines:
"GundamWing is not owned by me. It is the soul property of Bandaii/Sunbelt, and this is a nonprofit work done for the soul purpose of entertainment without any intentions to gain money off of it. The story and plot line, however, does belong to _____(Authors name) and ____ retains all rights to this work."
Song lyrics are similar, and under US Federal law, you only have to give credit, usually to the singer or group who performs it.
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