copyright

Copyright is one of the biggest issues to take in writing industry. A long embattled for the helpless writers, that delivers their assignment with passion is now being put on the crises. Laws are now made to protect and reserve the mantra of the passionate one, needlessly to say that is a campaign worldwide to vehemently antagonize the fortitude of the unscrupulous one. A nightmare to read an article published without the consent of the property owner. A thief is a thief, a crime is a crime, excruciating in the intellects of the writers, the art that was crafted by the artistic mind, was lambasted and exploited, but the admiration gained by the thieves is inexorable. Allow me to include on this piece the part and parcel of Martin Gurdon’s work in his book Write On! “ Copyright to other people’s written work, as long as it’s credited and attributed, is generally fine, provided this is in the context of something you’ve written, or you’re writing about it (in the case of report or study, for instance). However, simply lifting material and regurgitating it as if it was something you had produced is a form of stealing and potentially a breach of someone else’s copyright—although proving this is often difficult. People need to get their heads round copyright. Just because you can cut and paste from a computer or use a photocopier, doesn’t mean to say that you should, says Sharpe. The Web has made this sort of thing easier still, and this has provided greater temptations to the light-fingered or naïve. This is particularly true in the case of photographs, cartoons and illustrations. Copyright for them is less abstract than that for words or ideas, so permission will need to be sought and very possibly payment made. M. Gurdon, Write On!, 2007, 133 I cannot think of avoiding plagiarism, but you need to work on your own, no amount of changing from the original wordings to a synonymous one in giving due for the creativity, as long as the elements of the intellect of the writer is in the spirit of the article, it is still plagiarism. Research and hard work are the only ways to improve writing style. Inevitably, citation gives importance to the validity of the research, a writer must establish documentation and bibliography for the acknowledgment for another’s work. Plagiarism is the act of taking another person's writing, conversation, song, or even idea and passing it off as your own. http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/whatisplag.php (University of Southern Mindanao)