“Another COPYRIGHT CRIMINAL prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Stealing. Borrowing. Lifting. Copy&Pasting. Using. Sampling. even ‘was INSPIRED by’ are all euphemisms for the fancy Latin based word; plagiarism. And is defined as:
“The wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author’s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions, and the representation of them as one’s own original work.”
So remember recycling bottles is good.
Recycling someone’s writing is not.
Despite what some people think, the internet is not a free-for-all-take-what-you-need-copyright-free environment.
As a matter of fact if you didn’t create the essay, the photo or the video then you are STEALING if you copy/paste any part of it to your site.
Oh and by the way, back links and ‘via’ credit to the original author do not absolve you from being guilty of plagiarism.
Soooooooo…….
100% of the content found on the Smartly sites is copyright protected by both the editors of Smartly as well as the original authors under contract to the site. Which means if you enjoy the writers work here on Smartly, be very very careful not to ‘borrow’ any part of the essays written. Unless you want to be the next person with black bars across your eyes in a Copyright Criminal mug shot.
Because you will NOT get away with it…If you choose to steal from Smartly, we will be sure to know.
Don’t think we will catch you? We will. We use software to track if our content has been ‘scraped’ by copyright criminals.
Sincerely & Smartly,
Andrea and Marcy.
Hey are you a writer? Do you have a website?
Pick up a button for your site.
Show the world you will hunt down copyright criminals if they steal your stuff.
Cool.
But seriously… I don’t want your copy. I want her lips.
I took it and linked back to you! Don’t want to come into the wrath of Marcy! Ack!
This is awesome, especially because the colors match my blog design. DUAL SCORE.
Matches mine too! Love. It. Thanks, you guys. Awesome indeed. Think we should send one to Monica of Cooks Source “but honestly Monica” fame?
Send it, Kate!
Thank you for the stylish and smart button. A curse upon the house of all plagiarists!
Umm, technically, if you backlink and credit the original author/photographer/artist, it’s not plagiarism. Plagiarism is specifically claiming someone else’s work as your own. It may still be copyright infringement. That’s using someone else’s work without their permisson and isn’t reliant on credit or lack thereof. It does depend on how much of the other person’s work was used and how. The whole piece is not acceptable, but a part of of a piece may be if a) it’s small enough, b) is being commented on in some fashion, c) is not being used for profit. And that’s not touching the concept of a transformative work.
To sum up, you can plagiarize something in the public domain where copyright doesn’t exist. You can infringe copyright without plagiarizing if you acknowledge your source but don’t get permission to use the material, e.g. Cooks Source stealing Monica Gaudio’s article.
Thank you for the button! I saw it on a friend’s blog, My French Underpants, and loved it!