DOTW - Plagiarism - How fair is it?? (Page 3)

Interesting points CPM bhai!!! This issue of Plagiarism is never ending and ever green. It is present in every field. what matters more...is who delivered the concept fast...in a better manner...to how much people .....

1. We all know about the  Leibniz and Newton calculus controversy
2. JC Bose and Marconi controversy
3. Several songs of several bollywood directors
   

I donot think there is something like "Plagiarism"....it is "Customization". Someone gets inspired from someone's orginal work and they customize..rather tailor the product according to their needs.... Infact customization requires more effort is'nt ?
The pain one undergoes when their creative stuff is copied, cannot be measured. I have a small experience related to Debate Mansion of IF to share. In the days when I was very much active in the forum I used to maintain a books thread in DM. One day when I was lazily browsing through the net I found entire stuff of my post..including the member names of IF . My entire work was copied . I immediately logged into that Copycat's guestboook and scolded badly for copying the stuff (atleast without basic changes like removing the names of IF friends...)...may be because of my words..that person edited that post and wrote decently at the end of the post "Books Links courtesy of India-Forums". I might not have felt bad if that person gave some credit to me or atleast to the forum..before copying as it is .
Cheers,
Myth

Originally posted by WildGloss

Everything wrong -- small or big... is wrong... .and has to be stopped right?

Edited by ShadowKisses - 17 September 2008 at 8:52pm

^^^

Originally posted by chal_phek_mat

 

Plagiarism- How fair is it? Anything that has a copyright, should be attributed to the source, other than that, has absolutely no need to be attributed too, that is my position on the topic

 

 

Dictionary words IMO are not created with the intention of portraying just one?s own understandable terminologies it is meant to help the folks communicate with each other on some level on consistent scale. If you drill down to words > letters > human innovative minds > mind thanking the body > body creation of almighty, then everyone thanks almighty without mentioning specifically.

 

I understand the terms infringement / copyrights / inspiration etc etc but solely focusing on personal thoughts being stolen, it is NOT right. This concept of plagiarism is vague, no wonder no legal laws against it but I am sure we do understand the underlying consciences betrayal involved in the word plagiarism  

 

There are limitations of specifically pointing legit fact around plagiarism, this is on person to person to make your calls on, if copy of thoughts is just a copy or a coincidence. Coincidence?

 

BTW - CPM nice views, I am suspecting you are just kidding here, but spices up the topic and makes it debateable, thanks and no offence meant. - BTW thanks for whoever came up with smiley concept letters/words etc etc

Edited by raj5000 - 17 September 2008 at 8:06pm

When talking about the website part, can you say how ethical is it to copy someone's creative webpage?? You can get inspired about the concept, and put in your own inputs after giving credit from whr you had taken the concept..

Now if someone starts the same topic of debate after reading this one, the person is supposed to give the credit to IF and the author as he/she has got inspired about the concept.. Everyone's mind cannot be alike and when someone has taken their time and used their brains to create something, its not ethical to copy their property.. Even about inspiration - One who is getting inspired to any music piece should atleast give a credit to the composer..

First of all thanks Anu for a great topic!