Same thing with this It all comes around to who makes the book well known. Eventually, someone will realize who first copyrighted the story by year and try to tell everyone, but nobody will listen or even care since it all comes down to who told the story much better.
It's been mentioned several times that you can't copyright an idea, only the expression. I'm not questioning the ethics, just the legality. I know people get sued for stuff all the time, but that doesn't necessarily mean there's a case for it. ASH , 28 Aug am. Copyright is more than just the words that express the idea; it's likewise about the selection, arrangement and presentation of the idea referred in shorthand as SAP copyright.
When you talk about "taking the plot" of a story and then simply rewriting it in your own words--presumably in your example not changing the selection, arrangement and presentation of the plot, but just using substitute words to tell the story--then you'd be violating the SAP of the copyright. Plagiarism itself is not a legal concept; it's more a scholastic one, used primarily in academia, though I suppose sometimes elsewhere as well. I didn't mean solely word replacement, or the bare mechanics to go beyond that.
I know you have to step beyond that. I know a "hero's journey" isn't protected either. The lines possibly drawn in the sand are where my questions lie. I guess I should search for info about "SAP copyright". Thank you for the terminology. One good example comes from around Same title, and the songs relayed the same ideas, but the words were completely different.
If memory serves, the songs were released at about the same time, but since the lyrics and melodies were different, nothing happened between it. She would probably have to write under a different name.
I would think that this example would be impossible to prove as the Dutch writer wrote in her own words, didn't steal line for line, changed the character names in her story, and may have even changed the plot in some ways. In that case, I seriously doubt the Dutch writer will lose, but then again I don't have all the facts. Otherwise, anyone could argue that "War and Peace" might follow too closely to "Lord of the Rings" simply because of one event that might be 'close'.
Is a kid fighting a dragon then running through a maze after a cup though? What about the general idea of quiddage? That's clearly JK's invention, but can she own people making up stories about other characters playing it? Matt profile , 28 Aug am.
You can cite yourself the same way you would cite any other source: simply follow the directions for the citation style you are using. Most institutions have an internal database of previously submitted student papers. Turnitin can check for self-plagiarism by comparing your paper against this database. The consequences of plagiarism vary depending on the type of plagiarism and the context in which it occurs.
For example, submitting a whole paper by someone else will have the most severe consequences, while accidental citation errors are considered less serious.
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Text Reference Merkus, Title of Database. Date Month Year of Access. Accessed October If you re-use images or photos from open access journals, make sure to include the citation, and preferably reproduce the licensing terms as in: Image reproduced from [ citation ], available under the CC-BY 3. If you quote from works that are available under an open access license or in the public domain such as quoting from an author that is long deceased , you still have to use quotation marks and use a proper citation.
As the head of a lab or research group, you may have several students and associates involved in writing a paper. Make sure that all your co-workers are familiar with best practices to avoid plagiarism.
If in doubt, have your paper checked by a plagiarism detection software before submitting to a journal. If you re-use your own previous work or imagery in new papers, this often leads to self-plagiarism.
Usually, you give up copyright when transferring your work to a publisher so that self-plagiarism often constitutes a copyright infringement. In addition to possible copyright infringement, it is not good practice to re-publish material that is already available elsewhere. Get updates from our blog, writing tips and other author resources to your inbox. Receive a 25 USD voucher as a thank you.
As a conscientious writer, you have to make an honest effort to distinguish between your own ideas, those of others, and what might be considered common knowledge. Try to identify which part of your work comes from an identifiable source and then document the use of that source using the proper format, such as a parenthetical citation and a Works Cited list.
If you are unsure about what needs documenting, talk with your instructor. When thinking about plagiarism, it is hard to avoid talking about ideas as if they were objects like tables and chairs. You should not feel that you are under pressure to invent completely new ideas.
Instead, original writing consists of thinking through ideas and expressing them in your own way. The result may not be entirely new, but, if honestly done, it may be interesting and worthwhile reading. Print or electronic sources, as well as other people, may add useful ideas to your own thoughts. When they do so in identifiable and specific ways, give them the credit they deserve.
The following examples should clarify the difference between dishonest and proper uses of sources. The plagiarized words are italicized. Despite the outcry from environmentalist groups like Earth First!
The loss has not been higher mainly because population pressure has never been as great here as in Europe. The doubling of US farmland from to happened almost without affecting the total forest area as most was converted from grasslands.
Quotation marks around all the copied text, followed by a parenthetical citation, would avoid plagiarism in this case. But even if that were done, a reader might wonder why so much was quoted from Lomborg in the first place.
Beyond that, a reader might wonder why you chose to use a quote here instead of paraphrase this passage, which as a whole is not very quotable, especially with the odd reference to Europe.
Using exact quotes should be reserved for situations where the original author has stated the idea in a better way than any paraphrase you might come up with. In the above case, the information could be summed up and simply paraphrased, with a proper citation, because the idea, even in your words, belongs to someone else. Furthermore, a paper consisting largely of quoted passages and little original writing would be relatively worthless. In the following case, the exact ideas in the source are followed very closely-too closely-simply by substituting your own words and sentences for those of the original.
The ideas in the right column appear to be original.
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