After recent entries that have laws that may be relevant in the context of plagiarism, were written, will focus on this entry with the actors of intellectual theft, the counterfeiters.
could of course also a broader perspective should be adopted to look at all the copyright infringers, but that would take too long, probably because almost everyone who moves to the Internet, once violated the copyright. have
Under plagiarists here understood people, taken over from his intellectual achievements, without be labeled accordingly.
The group of people that is mentioned in connection with plagiarism most sure the students. Stefan Weber claims in his book on the Google Copy Paste Syndrome that perhaps one-third of all students have written and submitted plagiarism. The number seems realistic, depending on the definition of plagiarism to be too high. Realistically then, if not already a single correct quote a job makes plagiarism, high if the barrier is not available until several uncited points.
The fact is particularly lacking in younger students a sense of wrongdoing in violation of copyright. Therefore, the Wikipedia often used 1:1 in order to write a paper on a specific topic, without being named as the source is.
But university students, it often do not correspond exactly to the citation, although they are known to them. An excuse that is often heard is that this so everyone do. As long as the submission of any drastic consequences of plagiarism and the teachers work is not systematically check for plagiarism is understandable that students care little for Zitiervorschriften. It has been shown in different schools, that only makes the already threatened use of plagiarism software to check the number of plagiarism fall massively, and students are quite capable of quoting correctly (see here ).
Another group, at which time and again Piracy That arise are researchers, lecturers and academic staff of universities. Especially these people have a role model and influence a large number of students. It is therefore incomprehensible why not meet people who do indeed work in a scientific environment and the rules of academic work. The often-cited publications increased pressure under which these people are is not an argument for the spiritual power to acquire other, nor for its own services to publish more than once or piecemeal.
Journalists and writers are not immune to accept sentences or entire passages from third parties, without they correctly identify them, such as body read here.
It can be said pretty sure that everyone who is writing active may be tempted to take ideas from others that even this is often unavoidable. It is hoped, however, that the vast majority is willing to admit what ideas they took over and these features accordingly.
