EVERYTHINGS AN ARGUMENT CHAPTER 18 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ACADEMIC

EVERYTHING’S AN ARGUMENT CHAPTER 18: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND AVOIDING PLAGIARISM

Independent Work: Write in response to the following questions (to be turned in). On a college campus, a student receives a warning she has been detected using peer-to-peer music file-sharing software. Has she been practicing fair use, or is she guilty of copyright infringement? A student writing an essay about Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 on college athletic programs finds some powerful supporting evidence for is argument on a Web site. Can he use this information without gaining permission? Day-care centers around the country receive letters arguing that they’ll be liable to lawsuit if they use representations of Disney characters without explicit permission or show Disney films “outside the home. ” A tattoo artist claims ownership of the butterfly design on a movie star’s arm and protests when his work appears in an advertisement without permission. The actor argues that it’s her arm.

Examples of Plagiarism: Helen Keller was accused of plagiarism as a young girl for a school composition. Mortified, she determined to have all future compositions screened by her friends before submission. Spiritus-Temporis. com © 2004. - 2012 -08 -16 - evol 3 Some of the information on this page come from a Wikipedia article and are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. http: //www. motivatingwords. net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Helen-Keller. jpg

Examples of Plagiarism: According to a Boston University investigation into academic misconduct, Martin Luther King, Jr. plagiarized approximately one third of his doctoral thesis. He also appropriated others' text, without credit, for his famous speeches, including “I Have a Dream". Spiritus-Temporis. com © 2004. - 2012 -08 -16 - evol 3 Some of the information on this page come from a Wikipedia article and are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. http: //www. bing. com/images/search? q=martin+luther+king+jr&view=detail&id =65 CB 429 D 4123904 E 359336073 E 59 F 1 DD 329 BFFD 6&adlt=strict

Examples of Plagiarism: Senator Joseph Biden was forced to withdraw from the 1988 Democratic Presidential nominations in 1988 when it was revealed that he had failed a course in law school due to plagiarism. It was also shown that he had copied several campaign speeches, notably those of British Labour leader Neil Kinnock and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. In both cases he was essentially exonerated. Spiritus-Temporis. com © 2004. - 2012 -08 -16 - evol 3 Some of the information on this page come from a Wikipedia article and are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. http: //www. bing. com/images/search? q=joe+biden&view=detail&id = 10 ED 66 B 14 FCAD 87 E 940 AB 483 CD 7 BFB 8339 A 472 E 4&adlt=strict

Examples of Plagiarism: Popular historian Stephen Ambrose has been criticized for incorporating passages from the works of other authors into many of his books. Spiritus-Temporis. com © 2004. - 2012 -08 -16 - evol 3 Some of the information on this page come from a Wikipedia article and are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. h t t p : / / w w w. b i n g. c o m / i m a g e s / s e a r c h ? q = s t e p h e n + a m b r o s e + b o o k s & v i e w= detail&id=5826037 EF 3 F 2 C 55 A 0 FDD 9051 ECB 09385134 BC 2 B 8&first= 1&adlt=strict

Examples of Plagiarism: Alex Haley, author of the book Roots, was permitted to settle out-of-court for $650, 000, having admitted that he copied large passages of his novel from The African by Harold Courlander. Spiritus-Temporis. com © 2004. - 2012 -08 -16 - evol 3 Some of the information on this page come from a Wikipedia article and are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Examples of Plagiarism: Science fiction author Harlan Ellison sued and won in a case against James Carmeron, claiming that his film The Terminator plagiarized his episodes "Soldier" and "Demon With a Glass Hand" of the show “The Outer Limits. " piritus-Temporis. com © 2004. - 2012 -08 -16 - evol 3 Some of the information on this page come from a Wikipedia article and are licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. http: //www. bing. com/images/search? q=the+terminator&view= detail&id=CB 9692 CD 22 D 4724 FBCE 363488 CEB 9 D 687669124 A&adlt= Strict http: //www. bing. com/images/search? q=the+outer+limits&view = detail&id=2 FF 00 D 63 A 47633 FFED 9 B 1 DD 25 EA 5 C 8 C 85 C 04 DFA 7&adlt= strict

Examples of Plagiarism: Micheal Bolton was accused by the Isley Brothers of plagiarizing their song “Love is Wonderful thing. ” The Isley brothers won and were awarded $5. 4 M VS.

Examples of Plagiarism: George Harrison was successfully sued for plagiarizing (though perhaps unconsciously) the Chiffons' "He's So Fine" for the melody of his own "My Sweet Lord".

Examples of Plagiarism:

Examples of Plagiarism:

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Plagiarism: Can you recognize it? Play the game located at the following site to see. http: //www. lycoming. edu/l ibrary/instruction/tutorials/ plagiarism. Game. aspx