Comments on: The Issue of Plagiarism in Social Media

By: tedy

tedy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:09:47 +0000

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By: Dean Coder

Dean Coder — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:11:34 +0000

This is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge for our society. Take the Leibniz vs Newton argument regarding the development of Calculus. If they had the internet to publish on then it’s about who published first. Could they both have come up with the concept independently – yes. Does this mean that one should “own the rights” to the idea over the other? How much of an idea can we use before it becomes plagiarized? Certainly, credit needs to be due to the developers of an idea and any use of “identical phrases” needs to be credited. How long of a phrase do we need before we call it identical? My head is starting to hurt thinking about this so I am going to go and watch “Don’t download this song” on Youtube

By: David Cox

David Cox — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:55:15 +0000

May I have permission to use your Simpsons plagiarism graphic on my Web site and in documents on plagiarism which I might create?

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Lizzer: A Copyright/Hotlinking Disaster - PlagiarismToday — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:04:49 +0000

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By: Maq

Maq — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:30:27 +0000

The problem has less to do with plagiarism, and more to do–as you point out–with the fact that there is very little being said and many, many people saying it.

Anonymity means that anyone and everyone can be an expert on the internet. Rehashing others’ ideas, representing them in a new light, adding your own opinion or simply adopting someone else’s… It becomes hard to tell who is copying who.

But in the end, if you’re saying the same thing as everyone else, you’re destined to get lost in the mix (in the Mixx?) no matter what. Is it plagiarism? Who cares? Its mediocre, and therefore irrelevant.

By: Tabitha Grace Smith

Tabitha Grace Smith — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:16:23 +0000

Plagerism seems to be rampent on the internet. At least give a link credit. How hard is it to say “I really liked this post – here were some points the author made – here’s my analysis?”

But then again, there are a lot of VERY similar conversations out there (sometimes my feedreader makes my head spin at how similar the posts are) and a lot of people just think a like. So I can see where the confusion can come in.

I just hope in the longrun people really are cheating themselves more by stealing.

By: Erica DeWolf

Erica DeWolf — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:56:24 +0000

Great post! Plagiarism is and will always be a huge deal that must be payed attention to closely. However, phrases sometimes get repeated unintentionally. In one of my advertising classes, i was trying to use the word secret in my tagline…it only got negative feedback because everyone thinks of secret deodorant when they hear the word secret. Using the word wasn’t plagiarism, but perhaps the people at the deodorant company would think differently?

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:52:48 +0000

Awesome questions about the social media. I think the plagiarism is related to social media. Then its boths are connected.