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Allegation of Plagiarism against Filipino Personalities

 When Philippine Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III delivered a speech last
month about the dangers of artificial contraceptives, he did not expect he would
become embroiled in a heated and acrimonious debate about the sins of
plagiarism, and not about his opposition to the Reproductive Health bill.
Sotto prepared a three-part speech aimed at convincing his colleagues and the public at large
about the allegedly immoral and unconstitutional provisions of the controversial measure. But
to Sotto’s dismay, no sooner had he finished his first presentation than he was accused of
plagiarizing an American blogger. Sotto’s first reaction was to deny the charge, but his staff later
admitted that some parts of the speech were indeed copied from a blog, but supposedly only
for reference.
Sotto dismissed the plagiarism issue as something concocted by critics who couldn’t refute his
arguments against the use of artificial contraceptives. He even complained of being the first
senator to be cyber-bullied because of his commitment to block the passage of the
Reproductive Health legislation.
But if the plagiarism issue elicited intense response from both old and new media, Sotto can
only blame himself, his chief-of-staff, and even the Senate President, the latter of whom made
ludicrous statements about the meaning of plagiarism.

2. Explain Economic right and moral right

 Economic rights allow right owners to derive financial reward from the use of
their works by others. Moral rights allow authors and creators to take certain
actions to preserve and protect their link with their work. … Many countries do
not allow the transfer of moral rights.
In Economic rights owners allows to make profit from their original works by
letting the others borrow it. In moral right, the owners conserved their works by
preserving the links.
3. Explain the public domain and creative common
 Public domain is the purest form of open/free, since no one owns or controls the
material in any way. … Creative Commons licenses do not affect the status of a
work that is in the public domain under applicable law, because our licenses only
apply to works that are protected by copyright.
Example for public domain is, every student is searching and saving a pictures
from google, is not that they’re violating any copyrights. It is pure and free.
Example for Creative Commons is, I upload a 30 secs video in Facebook. I give
credits to the original owners of the music I use.
4. Differentiate plagiarism & Piracy
  The act of plagiarizing: the copying of another person’s ideas, text or other
creative work, and presenting it as one’s own, especially without permission
while Piracy the act of illegally making television or radio broadcasts
5. Explain fair use
 Fair use is a legal concept that allows the reproduction of copyrighted material
for certain purposes without obtaining permission and without paying a fee or
royalty.