Plagiarism - what is it? In simple words, this can be called a situation when someone took what you yourself created and appropriated authorship. Such situations are quite frequent, and even more so on the open spaces of the World Wide Web. But this can and must be fought. Consider different options for plagiarism.
Plagiarism - what is it? This is theft. But theft must be fought. And no one will do it better than you. To get started, put your name (author’s name) and date above or below the article. The one who copied your material will no longer be able to find an excuse, such as "I did not notice that this material has an author." However, plagiarism (what it is, everyone understands) can be quite tricky and skillful. There was a case when copyright materials were published on one site, but without specifying the authors themselves and without dating. Maybe it was not necessary. And on another, the authors were exposed and carefully selected dates. In such a situation, it is very, very difficult to prove one’s rightness.
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copyright sign should be placed on your material, and you should not completely publish the article. This will only facilitate the task of attackers. Just make an announcement - that will be enough.
There are different types of plagiarism. What it is - the theft of text, music or pictures - it does not matter. You need to protect your property, whatever it may be. So if you post images or photos of "your own production" - mark them with a logo or watermark. It is not uncommon to see captions at the bottom of the photo, where the name and surname of the author or his site are indicated. By the way, Google created a special service where images can be checked for plagiarism.
Is plagiarism possible songs? This is not such a rare occurrence in our world. Perhaps a little less rare than theft of texts. How many scandals arise in the field of show business, when someone stole from someone a few notes or lines or they just turned out to be at least a little similar. However, if the thief is not so famous or the song from which these precious notes are stolen is also not popular, this plagiarism is unlikely to open.
However, it is not always necessary to reproach a person for plagiarism. It happens that he never heard the song to which he composed a peculiar likeness. How can you learn and hear everything in the world? Like it or not, someday, in a completely random way, you can copy the work of any artist or, inspired by his work, create something similar to his songs.
By the way, plagiarism is not always met with a negative reaction. In the seventies, somewhere across the seas, there was such a case: a contest was announced to create a song dedicated to some significant date. They chose a winner whose song was madly liked by everyone, even made a country almost an anthem. Everyone was happy except the winner himself. After all, as she later admitted after many years, she coordinated the melody for the song with a Spanish guy. Later, she found him and asked for forgiveness for this, to which he smiled, hugged her and said that if it had not been for her sin, his melody would never have become so popular. After that, the girl calmed down.