Reply #25: No you don't. [View All]

[merh]

You credit the author when you use their published words without their permission. (Bibliographies or direct quote/reference.)

If I quote someone in my writing, if I use part of their writing in my writing and do not give them the credit for their words and do not have their permission, then I have plagiarized.

Plagiarism is theft of another person's writings or ideas. Generally, it occurs when someone steals expressions from another author's composition and makes them appear to be his own work. Plagiarism is not a legal term; however, it is often used in lawsuits. Courts recognize acts of plagiarism as violations of Copyright law, specifically as the theft of another person's Intellectual Property. Because copyright law allows a variety of creative works to be registered as the property of their owners, lawsuits alleging plagiarism can be based on the appropriation of any form of writing, music, and visual images.

Song writers either give permission for other performers to use their lyrics or they sell a license to the lyrics. You don't hear performers stand up and say, this is Song Writer's Janes lyrics. They don't have to because they have either been given permission and/or bought the rights.

Please stop with the nonsense.

Tons of speeches are made using the words and ideas of another, HRC has done the same in her speeches, borrowing from Obama. What truly makes it not plagarism is he was given the permission to use the words and ideas.