Plagiarism - what is it?

Plagiarism - what is it? In simple words, you can call the situation when someone took what you created yourself, and appropriated authorship. Such situations are quite frequent, and even more so on the expanses of the world wide web. But this can and must be fought with. Let's consider different variants of plagiarism.

Plagiarism - what is it? This is theft. And with theft you need to fight. And no one will do it better than you. First, put your name (author's name) and date above or under the article. The person 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 pretty tricky and skilful. There was a case when author's materials were printed on one site, but without the authors' instructions and without dating. Maybe it was not necessary. And on the other authors exhibited and carefully selected the dates. In this situation, it is very difficult to prove one's rightness.

In addition, on your material, a copyright symbol must be installed, and also it is not necessary to publish the article in full. This will only facilitate the task of intruders. Just make an announcement - that will be enough.

There are different kinds of plagiarism. What it is - the theft of text, music or pictures - it does not matter. We need to protect our property, whatever it is. So if you place images or photos of "your own production" - mark them with a logo or a watermark. It is not uncommon for the signatures at the bottom of the photo, where the author's name and surname or his site are indicated. By the way, in Google created a special service, where images can be checked for plagiarism.

Can plagiarism of the song be possible? This is not such a rare phenomenon in our world. Perhaps a little less rare than the theft of texts. How many scandals rise in the sphere of show business, when someone from someone stole several notes or lines or they were just a little alike. However, if the thief is not so famous or the song from which these precious notes are stolen is also not popular, it is unlikely that this plagiarism will open.

However, one does not always need to reproach a person for plagiarism. It happens that he never heard the song, which he composed a kind of similarity. How can you know and hear everything in the world? Whatever one may say, and someday, in a completely random way, you can copy the work of an artist or, inspired by his work, create something like his songs.

By the way, plagiarism is not always met with a negative reaction. Years in the seventies somewhere beyond the seas was such a case: they announced a competition for creating a song dedicated to some significant date. They chose the winner, whose song was very much liked by everyone, even almost the anthem of the country they made. Everyone was happy, except for the winner. After all, as she later confessed after many years, she had a melody for a song from a Spanish guy. Later she found him and asked for forgiveness for this, to which he smiled, embraced her and said that if it were not for her sins, his melody would never have become so popular. After that the girl calmed down.