[pp.int.general] Plagiarism is bad because it infringes copyright????

Daniel Mietchen daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 3 14:15:34 CET 2011


Hi Justus,

I don't think there is a legal copy of the entire thesis out there
that is freely accessible online, and I discuss the wiki both at the
beginning and at the end of my post.

Daniel

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Justus Römeth <roemeth at gmail.com> wrote:
> I only took a glimpse at your article, but you do know that the thesis is
> online and that there is a wiki dedicated to finding how much of the thesis
> is actually plagiarized, right?
>
> -J
>
> On 03.03.11 06:14, Daniel Mietchen wrote:
>>
>> My post is at
>>
>> http://www.science3point0.com/evomri/2011/03/03/just-put-the-thesis-online-and-let-everyone-have-a-look-for-themselves/
>> .
>> Your quote, by the way, was not contained in the Guardian link you
>> provided.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Daniel Mietchen
>> <daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Richard Stallman<rms at gnu.org>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    While she stopped short of calling for his resignation, she said:
>>>>    "Intellectual theft is not a small thing. The protection of
>>>> intellectual
>>>>    property is a higher good."
>>>>
>>>> She claims that each of a dozen unrelated laws is a "higher good" that
>>>> ustifies trampling most people's freedom and interests.
>>>>
>>>> Is someone from the German pirate party reading this?  Would it like
>>>> to use this to attack her and the concept of "intellectual property"?
>>>
>>> I am working on a blog post that shall emphasize that this kind of
>>> plagiarism is bad because it violates social norms in academia, not
>>> primarily because it (also) violates copyright. Further pointers in
>>> this direction welcome.
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>
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