PLAGIARISM.
According to wikipedia:
Plagiarism is the practice of claiming or implying original authorship of (or incorporating material from) someone else's written or creative work, in whole or in part, into one's own without adequate acknowledgement. Unlike cases of forgery, in which the authenticity of the writing, document, or some other kind of object itself is in question, plagiarism is concerned with the issue of false attribution.
According to wadsworth.com
Plagiarism, believe it or not, comes from a Latin verb that means, “to kidnap.” If you plagiarize you’re kidnapping and stealing others’ hard work and intellectual property. It is academic and public dishonesty. You wouldn’t want someone stealing your hard work, intentionally or even unintentionally, would you? Of course not. Still, writers sometimes purposely steal others’ work, and other times writers unintentionally plagiarize because they get confused, have poor notes, are lazy or intellectually unprepared, run out of time, or simply don’t know how to correctly reference sources. There’s a difference between plagiarism, of course, and misuse of sources.
According to encarta.com
| pla·gia·rism [ pláyjə rìzzəm ] (plural pla·gia·risms) |
noun |
| Definition: |
| 1. stealing somebody's work or idea: the process of copying another person's idea or written work and claiming it as original |
| 2. something plagiarized: a piece of written work or an idea that somebody has copied and claimed as his or her own |
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After reading the three definitions, I think the closest one to confirm I plagiarized from rukini would be the third one, precisely where it says, "stealing somebody's work or idea" maybe the author can assure us that it was his idea to use blogs to rant about the scores of the games, or maybe he can say it was his idea to use smart funny pictures as backgrounds to the soccer scores... but If you have ever seen him use movie covers to mock the lousy play of the opposing team... PLEASE! OH PLEASE tell me, cause then I might be 'Plagiarizing Ideas'.
Talking about plagiarism, my thought would have been that the author AT LEAST would have mentioned on his 'crocs' post that the had gotten the picture elsewhere, let alone the idea... seems I'm not the bad one after all... click on the image for fun...
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT... Long live freedom of speech...
saluuuuu
