the values inherent in copyright policy are different from those inherent in scholarly standards for the proper accreditation of ideas. Piracy is the infringement of a copyright, and plagiarism is the failure to give credit.They are confused because the most common examples of these wrongs involve both sorts of wrongs. But it is not hard to give examples that separate them. It would be plagiarism but not piracy for me to take the works of an obscure 19th . poet and try to pass them off as my own. Since the copyright will have expired on such works, this is not piracy. But it remains plagiarism of the sort that could be grounds for dismissal from a journalism post. It would be piracy but not plagiarism if I were to edit a volume of modern poetry and forget to get copyright permission for one item in the volume. Assuming that the credits were properly given to the author and source publication, this is not plagiarism. All the same, it would certainly be grounds for action under copyright law.
She’s now planning to sue and she’s perfectly entitled to do so.
It’s a bad idea to steal someone else’s idea. That’s why we have the Copyright Act and laws on intellectual property.

Plagiarism is a no-no in the world of journalism. Yes, many of us have to say the same thing, tell the same story – but we have to say it differently. You do not pick up the work of others and pass it off as your own. Dr Lee has admitted her mistake but says she didn’t attempt to plagiarise but “simply forgot to acknowledge the source”. While it may be true and I have no wish to go into the politics of Singapore’s first family, plagiarism remains an unacceptable matter.

At Pos Malaysia, too, was caught in a situation where a photographer complained that his work had been used in a stamp without his permission.
It is just wrong that people should steal the ideas of other who have worked hard to produce a piece of