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Copyright & Plagiarism

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Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy. Over the course of several decades, copyright protection has been expanded and extended through legislative changes occasioned by national and international developments. The content and technology industries affected by copyright and its exceptions, and in some cases balancing the two, have become increasingly important as sources of economic growth, relatively high-paying jobs, and exports. Since the expansion of digital technology in the mid-1990s, they have undergone a technological revolution that has disrupted long-established modes of creating, distributing, and using works ranging from literature and news to film and music to scientific publications and computer software.

Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy examines a range of questions regarding copyright policy by using a variety of methods, such as case studies, international and sectoral comparisons, and experiments and surveys. CITE Journal Article. Secondary ICT - Plagiarism - A Cut and Paste Generation | Teachers TV. May, 1998, From Now On. Introduction: The New Plagiarism Could electronic text spawn a virulent strain of student copying? Is cut-and-paste the enemy of thought? Many teachers who work in "wired schools" are complaining that new technologies have made it all too easy for students to gather the ideas of others and present them as their own. The New York Times reports that "cheating is on the rise. " (Go to September 16, 1998 article) The New Plagiarism may be worse than the old because students now wield an Electronic Shovel that makes it possible to find and save huge chunks of information with little reading, effort or originality.

Is the New Plagiarism any worse than the old? Under the old system of "go find out about" topical research, it took students a huge amount of time to move words from the encyclopedia pages onto white index cards, changing one word in each sentence so as to avoid plagiarism. The New Plagiarism requires little effort and is geometrically more powerful. Level One Research "Just the Facts" Check for Plagiarism On the Web For Free - PlagiarismChecker.com. Plagiarism Detection Technology | iThenticate Video. How to avoid plagiarism 2012/13. Plagiarism: How to avoid it. Harvard Referencing Generator | We love referencing! The New York Times Upfront | The news magazine for high school. Citing Sources. Yes We Can Plagiarize! Creative Commons.

YouTube - Copyright Perspectives: No, You Stole It.