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PUBLISHING
ICT – 12
Resources: I.C. Topia (ICT Training for the Future)
DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY
Second Edition
PUBLISHING ETHICS
DESKTOP PRODUCTIVITY
Second Edition
PLAGIARISM
• Plagiarism is a crime, particularly in
the world of research, writing and
publishing. In academic world,
anyone caught in the act of
plagiarizing will be heavily
punished.
• Students have already been
dismissed from universities and
denied their degree because of
plagiarism.
PLAGIARISM
• Professors and researches who have
been accused of plagiarism have been
suspended or fired from their respective
institutions.
EXAMPLES OF PLAGIARISM
• A writer decides that he wants to create
an Internet website to generate ad
revenue. Instead of writing his own
articles, he visits twenty other websites
that have articles on the topic in which
he is interested. He copies each of the
articles, changes the titles and the
authors' names to his name and posts
the articles on his own website.
EXAMPLES OF PLAGIARISM
• An academic is expected to publish
papers but he doesn't have time to
research because of family obligations.
He looks through old professional
journals in another country and he
copies a 10-year-old article from
someone else in the field. He submits the
article as his own and hopes that no one
finds the article from which he copied.
EXAMPLES OF PLAGIARISM
• A student is expected to write a research
paper on a topic in his history class. The
student had a friend who took a similar
class five years ago. The student asks his
older friend for a copy of his paper and
then takes the paper and passes it off as
his own, turning it in to the teacher with
his name on it.
PLAGIARISM
Most cases of plagiarism are considered
misdemeanors, punishable by fines of
anywhere between $100 and $50,000 —
and up to one year in jail. Plagiarism can
also be considered a felony under certain
state and federal laws. For example, if a
plagiarist copies and earns more than
$2,500 from copyrighted material, he or
she may face up to $250,000 in fines and up
to ten years in jail.
THINGS TO REMEMBER:
• When you use the ideas, words,
statistics, pictures or diagrams of others
without crediting the source material
you are
• PLAGIARIZING.
• It is important that you cite your
resources and give credit to those
whose works you quoted, copied or
used.
THINGS TO REMEMBER:
• Plagiarism may come in many forms:
copying word-for-word someone’s else
research paper, downloading available
articles/images on the Internet and
passing them as your own, or claiming
that you are the creator of a creative
work that is actually credited to
someone else, among others.
THINGS TO REMEMBER:
• You should know that when all things
are considered, it is never an excuse to
plagiarize.
• To steal other people’s ideas is
• CHEATING
• Cheating is the original creator of the
idea- because he was the one who
thought about it in the first place, and
cheating yourself- you lose the
opportunity to think for yourself.
PLAGIARISM
• Plagiarism is a grave offense.
• Schools, universities and educational
institutions all give priority to
intellectual freedom and discussion of
ideas, and to copy someone else’s ideas
and claim them as your own is enough
for the academic authorities to
investigate you. In the student
handbooks of most schools, if not all,
are guidelines and sanctions for
plagiarism.
PIRACY
• Piracy is one of the foremost challenges
that we face. It is costing industries
worldwide billions of dollars in losses.
• Despite the combined and unrelenting
efforts by the Movie and Television
Review and Classification Board
(MTRCB), the Optical Media Board
(OMB), and the National Bureau of
Investigation (NBI) pirated copies of
movies, songs, and software continue to
proliferate in the streets.
CYBERCRIME