WELCOME TO OUR: 1ST
"HOW TO" SERIES EDITION
HOW TO
use information ethically
(COPYRIGHT & PLAGIARISM)
WELCOME TO OUR: 1ST
"HOW TO" SERIES EDITION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 02
COPYRIGHT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 03
COPYRIGHT - EXAMPLES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 04
PLAGIARISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 05
PLAGIARISM - EXAMPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06
HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM . . . . . . . . . . 07
INTRODUCTION
USE INFORMATION LEGALLY AND
ETHICALLY
To be able to use the information you have
found, you will have to know how to use
information legally and ethically. Let's look
at:
Copyright
Plagiarism
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright in South Africa is governed by
the Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978.
Generally, the owner of copyright is the
person who does the creative work, e.g. the
author of the book or the designer of the
dress.
Copyright endures for the lifetime of the
author and 50 years after the author's
death. Copyright applies to printed and
online material
What can you legally copy?
Section 12 (1) of the Act allows the making
of a single copy of a reasonable portion of
a work, consistent with fair dealing for
personal or private use. This could be
up to 10% or a chapter of a work.
Copying of the whole or a major portion of
the work in question is not reasonable and
not compatible with fair dealing.
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COPYRIGHT EXAMPLES
A copyright infringement example at
university could be when you copy a large
portion of a book or an audio-visual such as
a DVD and/or music recording.
It is important to note the consequences of
copyright ALSO in business. There have
been a number of cases in business that
went to court due to copyright
infringements:
Who invented the graphical user interface (GUI)? Apple or
Microsoft? The lawsuit was decided in Microsoft’s favor on
August 24, 1993.
Gucci takes on Guess:
Image source: [Link]
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PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism is seen as intellectual theft!
By using another author’s research and
ideas without acknowledgement is
considered plagiarism.
It is unethical and illegal to submit
someone else's work as your own - it is the
same as stealing.
Have a look at the CPUT Plagiarism Policy
under Module 4 of this course.
Consequences of plagiarism could be a
failed assignment or subject or in severe
cases expulsion from the university.
Plagiarism
is intellectual theft
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PLAGIARISM EXAMPLES
Plagiarism can take various forms. It can be
blatant theft or accidental "borrowing". See
the following examples:
You submit an assignment done by another student (or
from a paper mill) as your own.
You pay another student to write an assignment for you
and hand it in as your own work.
You copy and paste sections from someone else's work
and add it to your work without acknowledging the source.
Software is available where lecturers can
check your assignments for plagiarism, e.g.
SafeAssign and Turnitin.
Even if plagiarism is discovered
years from now, a university can
withdraw a qualification that
was awarded to a student.
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HOW TO AVOID
PLAGIARISM?
Have a look at Module 5 of this course. It
will teach you how to cite and reference (do
a bibliography) correctly when you make
use of the work and ideas of other author(s)
to develop your own new knowledge.
Look at this example:
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