Plagiarism and copyright violation has two different meaning. Plagiarism is where people used other people work or idea without acknowledge or claiming them to be their own. According to (Mahmood 2009) one of the category of plagiarism is ‘self- plagiarism in which reproduces or duplicates
whole or part of one is own previously published material without taking permission from the editor of the journal in which the work was previously published thus committing copyright violation’. ‘Self-plagiarism occurs when you reproduce portions of your work without citing the original work’ (Anderson 2006, p. 623). This is where the individual can be claim as a thief and especially for tertiary student where plagiarism is seriously not cool in education world and there are consequences to what you are doing.
To avoid plagiarism is not a hard things to do, a proper reference of ‘previous published material’ is all you need due to the respect of the author (Anderson 2006, p. 623).
Based on the Wikipedia defines copyright infringement is an offense to the copyright holder for example to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the copyrighted work without permission from the copyright holder, which is typically a publisher or other business representing or assigned by the work's creator.
Commonly copyright violation happen when these thieves take advantage and reap illegal profits and making illegal business that will have catastrophic consequences and chaos in specific industry. For example, the issues of downloading movies and music thru the internet should be taken seriously if not local film industry will get a lot of losses. Therefore, people should be aware of the consequences what other people going to face. Do not forget about the economy of the country, some will go down due to significant losses in any case. (Novos 1984, p.236) indicated that the increment in copyright will going to face two effects on social welfare. Early, it will decline the social welfare casualty outstanding by underproduction. Following, it will increase the social welfare loss due to underutilization.
Therefore, the public should have awareness on plagiarism and copyright violation and the most important thing is not to do what is wrong even though i admit it is so convenient and cost me nothing to watch movie and listen to music but it is not right when others languish on our comfort.
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Hello Syaffyka,
ReplyDeleteI agree that it is wrong to plagiarise another person's work but personally, I do not support the idea of buying movies or music online. Why waste unnecessary money on one movie when you can get it for free? It is just not idealistic to waste money like that as some people are not able to afford it. So if they are not able to listen to that song just because they could not afford it, does that mean they can never listen to it? However, you have a point in your argument that it takes away the credit from the original artist. Good job!