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Arvin Loui DF. BasconHumanities 314 August 2015

Copy Right, Intellectual Property and Plagiarism What is Copy Right? Is a legal right created by the law of a country that grants the creator of an original work Exclusive Rightto its use and distribution, usually for a limited time.Is a form of Intellectual Property, applicable to any expressed representation of a creative work

What is Intellectual Property? Intellectual property (IP) is a term referring to creations of the intellect for which a monopoly is assigned to designated owners by law. Some common types of intellectual property rights (IPR) are Copyright, Patents, and Industrial design rights; and the rights that protect Trademarks, Trade dress, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets: all these cover music, literature, and other artistic works; discoveries and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs.What is Plagiarism? Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work.

Types of Intellectual Property RightsPatent - is a form of right granted by the government to an inventor, giving the owner the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, offering to sell, and importing an invention for a limited period of time, in exchange for the public disclosure of the invention.Copy Right - gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time.Industrial Design Rights (Design Rights) - protects the visual design of objects that are not purely utilitarian. An industrial design consists of the creation of a shape, configuration or composition of pattern or color, or combination of pattern and color in three-dimensional form containing aesthetic value.Forms of Plagiarism Direct Plagiarism - Direct plagiarism is the word-for-word transcription of a section of someone elses work, without attribution and without quotation marks.Self-Plagiarism - Self-plagiarism occurs when a student submits his or her own previous work, or mixes parts of previous works, without permission from all professors involved.Mosaic Plagiarism - Mosaic Plagiarism occurs when a student borrows phrases from a source without using quotation marks, or finds synonyms for the authors language while keeping to the same general structure and meaning of the original.Accidental Plagiarism - Accidental plagiarism occurs when a person neglects to cite their sources, or misquotes their sources, or unintentionally paraphrases a source by using similar words, groups of words, and/or sentence structure without attribution.

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