In nowadays, the act of plagiarism often happens among all of the people and is getting serious from time to time. According to Pamela Samuelson, readers which may also be known as the author have to consider about the previous writing of the original author and decide whether it is fair to reuse or not (Pamela Samuelson, 1994). In U.S, if both parties are reusing each other's prose may raise into the copyright issue (Pamela Samuelson, 1994) as they are strictly look into copyright issue among the citizens. However, we can see that not every country have the same penalty against those who reuse the other author's material, for example U.S.
A person will know as a plagiarist when he or she has reused a portion of prose and did not contribute anything to the point or idea. Fair use is about giving the right and permission for the purpose of teaching, criticize and research especially for institution for teachers and students to have further research into some topics.
By trying to work thing fast, writers will easily get to plagiarize other people's work without their own notice. Thus, editor will always look into the minor plagiarism of the work. But, working quickly is not a good excuse for one to plagiarize a copyrighted material as plagiarism did not look into timing and several reasons.
So, the owner of copyright may get an order from the court to stop the infringement activity in order to stop readers getting into his or hers material (Pamela Samuelson, 1994). The reason for the owner to do this is to protect his or her own copyright by not letting the readers to reuse the information written by them. The penalties of each country may be different but however here is one of the copyright infringement's penalties.
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References
Pamela Samuelson, Communications of the ACM, Volume 37 Issue 8, Aug. 1994, viewed 10 November 2011.
Purdue University, Copyright Infringement's Penalties, viewed 10 November 2011.
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