On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM, wjhonson@aol.com wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Anthony wikimail@inbox.org To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wjhonson@aol.com Sent: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 8:55 pm Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:46 PM, <wjhonson@aol.comlt%3Bwjhonson@aol.com> wrote:
If the author who is placing their material PD, not by age, doesn't
like what people do with it, they shouldn't have made it PD. The problem with plagiarism is that it's dishonest, and it remains dishonest regardless of what the original author allowed or even desire>>
What? What does plagiarism have to do with what I said? I specifically said that you place the PD text in WikiSource and point at it. There is no way to plagiarize under those conditions, you are making it explicit. So I have no idea to what you refer here.
Will Johnson
I've got to disagree with you, Will. If the original author places something in the PD, then there is no way to violate copyright law. But claiming to be the author of something that someone else wrote is dishonest, even if you are not violating their copyright.
Certainly you can understand this in the context of a school paper: a student submitting a paper written by someone else, even if that paper is in the PD, is still plagiarism, pure and simple.
-Rich