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¿Originality or Plagiarism?
¿What is plagiarism & copyright infringement vs derivative & transformative work?
¡Play & Learn!
"First, ideas are often a mixture of one’s own ideas, those we read and those we discuss with friends or with whoever. Making it hard or even impossible to sort out who owns what. Second, writers who are learning a new field often “try out” ideas and phrases from other writers or speakers in order to master the field. That process, which allows them to learn, involves little or no deceit. And third, expectations for citing sources vary among contexts and readers, making it not only confusing to learn the rules but impossible to satisfy them all"
"Being accused of recycling our own content or "self-plagiarism" is simply an oxymoron! Because reusing or repurposing texts are no more than the building blocks of new "original" content. Isn’t this the way creativity is supposed to work?
Old words in the service of a new idea aren’t the problem. What inhibits creativity is new words in the service of an old idea"
"¿How copyright law has come to privilege publishers at the expense of those who created the work in the first place? Because too often, according to those who impose and enforce the law, once you have transferred copyright to a journal (in order to publish) you cannot 'ethically' use the words that you have written in another journal article. ¿How comes it should be like this? Oh! simply because according to them; ¡You no longer own those words!"
"Fundamentalist copyright enforcers’ contention that once text has been published, the words no longer belong to that author or anyone else for that matter. It is this notion of intertextuality that leaves space for authors to challenge the demonization of using their own words, data or ideas for different effects and toward different audiences"
"Whereas plagiarism refers to the practice of claiming credit for the words, ideas, and concepts of others, self-plagiarism refers to the practice of presenting one's own previously published work as though it were new"
¿Sources of inspiration?
"The protection of copyrights and claims on plagiarism, for instance, are time-limited. Once something passes into the public domain, anyone can copy it without restriction. The final dishonesty of the plagiarism fundamentalists is to encourage us to pretend that these chains of influence and evolution do not exist. And that a writer’s words have a virgin birth and an eternal life"
"Perhaps more culpable in the creation of self-plagiarism as an ethical breach are publishers and plagiarism-detection software companies. Since each of these entities has a financial interest in raising self-plagiarism as a transgression that needs to be monitored and curtailed"
"On one hand, corporate plagiarism-detection software companies want to create greater opportunity to increase markets for their products manufacturing a new "need" for detecting more instances of plagiarism which suits their capitalist interest. On the other hand, publishers want to narrow the reach of each manuscript so that they have exclusive rights to make money from downloads and purchases of the content in those researches"
Copy & Paste from one source = Plagiarism
Copy & Paste from many sources = Research
So, as I hope that you can see. There's nothing in this article that we would say is "totally and absolutely" original. As there is nothing totally and absolutely original in the content that has been created by anyone else, for that matter. ¿Or am I wrong?
Because from the very moment you begin to use letters, words, phrases, syllables, sentences, expressions, signs, sounds, entire ideas or a whole language with a "pattern syntax" regardless of whether it is spoken, written, gestual, sung or audiovisual to communicate with your peers, your audience or the humanity in general. You can always be easily accused of plagiarism. ¡Or prove me otherwise!
¿Why? Oh! simple! Because if I were to write here and now the following sentence: ¿Who the fucking fuck these motherfuckers think they are? Could you assure me that you hadn't heard or read it before anywhere else? ¿Can you see now what I mean?
I could easily be accused of plagiarizing the alphabet or the dictionary or any digital or printed version of them. Because any of the letters, words or syllables that I have used in that sentence above, obviously had already been shown, said or written before in any of these texts. Again, can you perceive where I'm going with all this?
And the same happens with entire ideas, knowledge, inspiration, insights, mindsets and all resources of expression through language. You have no choice but to repeat what others already have thought, taught, said or written before since immemorial times. That's just the nature of human communication. ¿Am I right?
¿Or is it that these plagiarism watchdogs pretend that you must be intended to be some kind of extraterrestrial alien with an unique and original mentality, knowledge and language that no one would understand anyway? ¿For what purpose?
¿How the freaking hell can anyone say that everything they have learned, knows, has said or written somewhere, does not all come from what someone has taught them before, they have heard, read or seen somewhere else and which was created by someone else? ¿Does that even makes any sense? ¿What's the logic of the plagiarism watchdogs? ¿Is it the one listed above in the last part of the quotes?
Or is it expected that we have to cite all the time as a "source" of origin the alphabet, the dictionary and everything we have seen, heard and learned for a whole lifetime every time we are using the language in its different forms of expression to communicate? ¡Provide the "source" or you'll be punished! ¡Seems to be their mindset!
But well, last and not least to close this long diatribe right here. Just a couple more videos before you dare to open your big mouth with your opinion without having «clicked» on all the links in this post. Because otherwise, just scroll all the way up and read again twice the sentence in big bold letters with which I started this article.
