Mark Wagner wrote:
On 7/21/06, Anthony wikilegal@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.
A straight translation of copyright text from any other language would still be infringement, but very hard to detect.
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