Concept
Plagiarism
Overview
Plagiarism is the representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work. Although precise definitions vary depending on the institution, in many countries and cultures plagiarism is considered a violation of academic integrity and journalistic ethics, as well as of social norms around learning, teaching, research, fairness, respect, and responsibility. As such, a person or entity that is determined to have committed plagiarism is often subject to various punishments or sanctions, such as suspension, expulsion from school or work, fines, imprisonment, and other penalties.
Not all cultures and countries hold the same beliefs about personal ownership of language or ideas, and plagiarism is typically not in itself a crime. However, like counterfeiting, fraud can be punished in a court for prejudices caused by copyright infringement, violation of moral rights, or torts. In academia and in industry, it is a serious ethical offense. Plagiarism and copyright infringement functionally overlap, depending on the copyright law protection in force, but they are not equivalent concepts, and although many types of plagiarism may not meet the legal requirements in copyright law as adjudicated by courts, they still constitute the passing-off of another's work as one's own, and thus plagiarism.
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Lauder, therefore, about the year of 1752, wanted to begin by proving that Milton was only a plagiarist, before proving that he had acted as a forger against the memory of the most unfortunate of kings; he procured some editions of the poem of the "Sarcotis." It seemed evident that Milton had imitated some passages of it, as he had imitated Grotius and Tasso. But Lauder did not rest content there; he unearthed a bad…
Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
The chapter “_MILTON, ON THE REPROACH OF PLAGIARISM AGAINST_” is titled for Plagiarism; opens on Plagiarism.
I allude to that mean, despicable spirit, whose loadstar is personal interest, when it ought to be truth, and in which the voice of intention makes itself heard beneath the mask of insight. Double-dealing and time-serving are the order of the day. Tartuffe comedies are performed without _rouge_; nay, Capuchin sermons are preached in halls consecrated to Science; enlightenment, that once revered word, has become a…
Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature
Names Plagiarism twice; opens on Plagiarism.
To commit plagiarism, to appropriate anything one can get, even though it belongs to another, obviously leads to the second part of the dream, in which I am treated like a certain overcoat thief, who for a time plied his trade in the auditoria. I wrote down the expression plagiarism—without any reason—because it presented itself to me, and now I perceive that it must belong to the latent dream-content, because it…
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Names Plagiarism several times.
Philosophers who discussed Plagiarism
- Heraclitus
- Zygmunt Bauman
- Dan Brown
- Detective fiction
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
- Franciscus Patricius
- Jakob Thomasius
Related ideas
- Artificial intelligence
- Glyph
- Homer
- Creativity
- Internet
- Neologism
- Journalism
- Heraclides Ponticus
- Latin
- Laurence Sterne
- Noam Chomsky
- Reductio ad absurdum
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Princeton University
- Pablo Picasso
- Romanticism
- Syntax
- Stanford University
- Semantics
- Deontology
- Tort
- T. S. Eliot
- The New York Times
- Age of Enlightenment
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Academic publishing.