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

[Daniel Mietchen]

Dear Richard,

sorry for the typo. I fixed it, and implemented the latter of your
suggested rephrasings:
http://www.science3point0.com/evomri/2011/03/03/just-put-the-thesis-online-and-let-everyone-have-a-look-for-themselves/#comment-749
.

Thank you!

Daniel

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> 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/
>
> I have two corrections to suggest.  One is to spell my name correctly:
> it has just one n.  The other, more important, is that when the
> article says
>
>    I mention this because plagiarism is often confused with
>    intellectual property and especially copyright,
>
> it treats "intellectual property" as a meaningful reference to a
> coherent something.  In addition, plagiarism is not confused with
> copyright per se, but rather with infringement.  Both points could be
> clarified by replacing the sentence with this one,
>
>    I mention this because plagiarism is often confused with copyright
>    infringement.
>
> or this one.
>
>    I mention this because plagiarism is often confused with copyright
>    infringement (which is often further confused by calling copyright
>    "intellectual property").
>
> --
> Dr Richard Stallman
> President, Free Software Foundation
> 51 Franklin St
> Boston MA 02110
> USA
> www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org
>



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