Hi Everyone! Wow, I'm really liking this blogging thing!!! I'm learning to be long written instead of just long winded... lol
We need to site our sources to give credit where credit is due!!! It is not unfair for us to use someone else's words, work, and material as our own, but it is ethically wrong! If someone used something of mine, without giving me credit, I would tattle... lol, I'm sorry but in my opinion that is exactly what I would do, and even though I teach my children that tattling is wrong, I also teach them that holding people accountable for how they treat you is right, and I believe that that would apply in this case.
Some examples of "real-world plagiarism issues," would be if my husband, he's an electrician, copied a "rough in proposal" of another electrical company. By this I mean that when a prospective customer hands several electrician's their draft of their house, and they all take them home and make a bid for the job. If my husband was to see another companies bid, and then copy it, and underbid it so he could get the job, this to me would be plagiarism. What do you think??? Another example could be if I was writing a paper for a class, and my friend decided to write about the same topic, and I noticed that my paper sounded a lot like hers, only to find out she was coping my paper, this would defiantly be plagiarism.
I do believe that the Internet blurs the lines of "legally owned." My kids watch U-tube videos and stuff all the time, and to be honest I have wondered, "How is that legal?" The ones that make me question it are the songs, and music videos, when I was a kid (wow, that was an "old" statement, wasn't it? l0l) we had to buy the Cd's if we wanted to listen to our favorite songs, "on demand," and now days, with U-tube and other sights, they are just a click away.
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