An Old Problem
In comparing various authors with one another,I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest
writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works,
without making acknowledgment.
Pliny the Elder 23 AD – 79 AD
And it is still so today. So why complain? It is here to stay.
And why is it that if you copy the work of one person you are chided as a thieve but if you copy the work of 10 people you are hailed as a researcher?
Copyright does not protect the ideas or the information itself, only the form or manner in which it is expressed. For example, the copyright to a blog restricts others from making copies of the blog or creating derivative works based on the particular blog, but does not forbid the creation of other blogs about the same topic, so long as they are different enough to not be judged copies.
So, if you express the same information in your own words and sequence it cannot be adjudged as a copyright infringement.
And how do you obtain copyright on your work?
Simply by adding
Copyright © Catfoot 2013.
Comments (48)
thats does not apply if you copy from lots of different sources. its called research.
btw, i am applying my copyright rights here. Copyright © Boagrt 2013
stay well.
that will depend on where you applied the superglue.
Your copyright had been duly noted.
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