You may well be correct -- any lawyers in the audience?
On Feb 19, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Shearon, Tim wrote:
Paul- You said: "And since plagiarism is a legal construct, does
the author sue herself?"
Paul- I do not think that is correct (but would welcome
correction). Plagiarism is a set of standards and agreements within
a community not a set of laws protecting intellectual property.
That is the issue of copyright with its own set of difficulties and
dilemmas. I believe this discussion has confused plagiarism and
copyright violation which is often the case- and some of that is
due to confusions within the two sets of norms and very unclear
boundaries. I think you were correct when you started by pointing
out that violating a/the journal's publication rules wasn't the
same thing as plagiarism. But I'd add, which isn't the same thing
as copyright violation.
Tim
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Minnesota State University, Mankato
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