I think there were many blur area between plagiarism and piracy but well they had distinction too. After I read through week 5 journal:" On the Web, plagiarism matters more than copyright piracy." I had realize that how serious was the issues and we are actually performing the acts in our life.
This issue had been covered by BBC NEWS that authority in Malaysia had faced a big problem of piracy as 70% of piracy had been made illegally in this country. According to the articles, it had stated that there were two billion pirated music CDs are sold every year, according to figures from the recording industry and the major record labels and film studios are increasingly worried about the impact of piracy on their business.--BBC NEWS, 2002 Malaysia faces CD piracy fight.
I guess this is why piracy had been so furious in the recent 10 years in the industry especially in the music industry. As times changes, majority of people are not longer listen to CD. Everything had shift to the internet which had been the problem for the artist and the music company but the public are taking advantage on it.
What's your feeling if you're the artist above? Think about it.
Looking back to the issues, piracy had become main problem that had been gain so much attention from many industries. But as the technology are getting advanced so much, there was another problem or issues that had arisen which people had ignore it for a long time which is plagiarism. Same goes to the piracy, but piracy is the infringement of the copyright while plagiarism is the failure to give credit.
Users may not realized that they were performing this act in their life. But what we always do when we gonna use other resources, we tend to copy and paste the content but we forget to do the most important things which is the authors receives no credit. Well, in my opinions, I totally agree with the author that plagiarism may not caused a harm to the author itself but rather the reader itself. Readers are exposed to the false data and information which plagiarism presenting a misleading claims or hidden provenance.
Looks familiar with the figure above? Watch out! You may unintentionally developed the practices of plagiarism. This is an important issues that we had to take the action especially in the academic field. It's very important for the tracing back of the scholarly articles when comes to a published work. I think that plagiarism had to be heighten in this century, especially the youngster generation. The "Cltr+C & Cltr+V" had become the fashion or a trend that most of the students followed. There was the reason why this trend had started. The shifting of information from the hard copy to the digital format. We are no longer flipping through the stack of books just to found the few sentences. Things had changed now, we are now just Google it and all the information we want were there.
At the last lecture, I had started to contact with the creative commons which is the nonprofit organization that develops, supports, and stewards legal and technical infrastructure that maximizes digital creativity, sharing, and innovation. The vision of it is to realizing the full potential of the internet—universal access to research, education, full participation in culture, and driving a new era of development, growth, and productivity which I think is really good. This had at least, promoting the importance of giving the credit to the fine work that produced so hard from the authors. You can find more here!
In the article of John W.Snapper, he had stated the term of "fair use" for the issues of piracy. According to the Standford University Library, fair use is defined as any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and “transformative” purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize, or parody a copyrighted work. Such uses can be done without permission from the copyright owner. This practice had been falls into these two categories which are commentary and critiques and also parody.
Commentary and critiques, for example, a review. Review about songs, music, movie or even books. This all can be done in the fair use in the reproduce purpose. For parody, fairly extensive use of the original work is permitted in a parody in order to “conjure up” the original. For more, you can click Standford University Library.
Thinking time!!
From the issues that had carried out by Snappers, it really must gain an attention from everyone which is not about crediting but also appreciate the works that had worked so hard by the authors. But, at the end, when every pieces of information can be found in the Web, will we still take our time to trace back the work and cited the author? What's more is that will we still learn how to appreciate others people work? Will we lost the ability of the acknowledgment and just do a photocopy machine? Take your time and think about it :) Have a nice day!
