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Plagiarism & Fair Use

When I was first introduced to the plagiarism policy, I always came to think why would people do such a thing if they knew what were consequences. Plagiarism is such a thing that we know we should not play with it, because now many colleges and other schools are more aware of it. Due to the fact that more people try to do it and get away with it. Also about the fair use of many kind of materials is that we don’t have to have a permission in order to use, but we just have to know how to use it in the right way and reference that person who we took from ii and give it credit for the work we used from them. Due to many changes many people should be aware on how to use other people’s material and give credit to them.

Notes from today, and reading/viewing/blogging for Wednesday, October 5

I hope our privacy discussion got you thinking about your relationship to all of the information “out there” that is about you, and what rights you have to controlling that personal or private information. I found an interesting New York Times article about privacy on college campuses in the wake of the 2008 Virginia Tech shooting: “After Campus Shootings, U.S. to Ease Privacy Rules.”

On Wednesday, we’ll be discussing ethics in information and media, including copyright and fair use, open access, and plagiarism. For Wednesday, please read the following 2 articles:

Isserman, “Plagiarism: a lie of the mind.Chronicle of Higher Education, 49(34), B12.

Center for Social Media. 2008. The code of best practices in fair use for media literacy education. “Code” and “Principles” sections only.

and watch these videos:

Lawrence L. 2007. “The Law is Strangling Creativity

Faden, E. 2007. “A Fair(y) Use Tale.”

Your blogging homework is one reading response blog post; one comment on another’s post. Please make the blog post a substantial reflection on the readings and viewing; the comment should be shorter, but try to make it relevant and pithy. Not simply “I agree with your point!”

Slides from today are available here.

~Prof. Leonard