[WikiEN-l] Slashdot: Book plagarized Wikipedia

Kwan Ting Chan ktc at ktchan.info
Wed Nov 14 19:29:47 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 10:42 -0800, Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
> >> Plagiarism isn't affected by the licence or the law. It's an academic sin,
> >> not a legal one.
> >>     
> > If the licence requires attribution, then not attributing is copyright
> > violation. Whether you call it "plagiarism" or not is irrelevant.
> It's not a copyright violation; it's a breach of contract.
> 

If the expert can't agree on this, I love how you two are both so
definite on it. ;-)

KTC

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