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Arvin Loui DF. Bascon

Humanities 3
14 August 2015

Copy Right, Intellectual Property and Plagiarism

What is Copy Right? Is a legal right created by the law of a country that
grants the creator of an original work Exclusive Right to its use and
distribution, usually for a limited time.
Is a form of Intellectual Property, applicable to any expressed representation
of a creative work

What is Intellectual Property? Intellectual property (IP) is a term referring

to creations of the intellect for which a monopoly is assigned to designated
owners by law. Some common types of intellectual property rights (IPR) are
Copyright, Patents, and Industrial design rights; and the rights that protect
Trademarks, Trade dress, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets: all these
cover music, literature, and other artistic works; discoveries and inventions;
and words, phrases, symbols, and designs.
What is Plagiarism? Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing
and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or
expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work.

Types of Intellectual Property Rights

Patent - is a form of right granted by the government to an inventor, giving
the owner the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to
sell, and importing an invention for a limited period of time, in exchange for
the public disclosure of the invention.
Copy Right - gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it,
usually for a limited time.
Industrial Design Rights (Design Rights) - protects the visual design of
objects that are not purely utilitarian. An industrial design consists of the
creation of a shape, configuration or composition of pattern or color, or
combination of pattern and color in three-dimensional form containing
aesthetic value.

Forms of Plagiarism

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Direct Plagiarism - Direct plagiarism is the word-for-word transcription of a
section of someone elses work, without attribution and without quotation
marks.
Self-Plagiarism - Self-plagiarism occurs when a student submits his or her
own previous work, or mixes parts of previous works, without permission
from all professors involved.
Mosaic Plagiarism - Mosaic Plagiarism occurs when a student borrows
phrases from a source without using quotation marks, or finds synonyms for
the authors language while keeping to the same general structure and
meaning of the original.
Accidental Plagiarism - Accidental plagiarism occurs when a person
neglects to cite their sources, or misquotes their sources, or unintentionally
paraphrases a source by using similar words, groups of words, and/or
sentence structure without attribution.

References :
https://en.wikipedia.org
https://www.bowdoin.edu