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Copyright

This guide provides tips and resources for navigating the Copyright landscape.

Differences Between Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement

Plagiarism is an ethical violation that occurs most often in academic situations when a party takes credits for work that was not of their own authorship VS.

Copyright infringements occur when a party copies, reproduces, distributes, displays or performs, or makes a derivate version of a protected work without permission of the copyright owner or the law.

There are also instances where an act can be both plagiarism and infringement. For example, a student can copy and paste current literature that is not their own work, thereby plagiarizing it, and then publish it online, thereby infringing copyright of the literature.