On 7/21/06, Anthony <wikilegal(a)inbox.org>
wrote:
Wait a second, are we talking about copyright
infringement,
plagiarism, or legal use of non-free content? These are three
separate problems. I thought the original post was talking about
copyright infringement, but this new post talks about "taking somebody
else's writing and passing it off as their own".
Most people don't distinguish between "plagiarism" and
"copyright
infringement" when it comes to writing: the school system is very
effective at training people that simply copying the contents of the
Encyclopedia Britannica isn't an acceptable way of writing a report,
which is why we don't get very many instances of copyright violations
with text.
Using the work of a PD author without credit would still be plagiarism,
but not copyvio.