[WikiEN-l] Citizendium

[Rich Holton]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:21 PM, <wjhonson at aol.com> wrote:

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> From: Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>; wjhonson at aol.com
> Sent: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 8:55 pm
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Citizendium
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:46 PM,  &lt;wjhonson at aol.com<lt%3Bwjhonson at aol.com>&gt;
> wrote:
>
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> 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>>
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> 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