PLAGIARISM, COPYRIGHT & SUSTAINABILITYMathias Klang

GOOD ARTISTS COPY, GREAT ARTISTS STEAL

PURPOSE OF UNIVERSITY

To challenge ideas and mindsThink different, think free

BUT: Lacks a sense of humor

Illegal file sharing

UNIVERSITY PLAGIARISMMathias Klang

COPYRIGHT PROTECTS FORM BUT NOT THE IDEA

FormIdeas

Plagiar

ismCopyright

What is a copy?

Plagiarism

• Priscilla was my age and lived two blocks away. For the first fifteen years of my life, those were the only qualifications I needed in a best friend.

• Bridget is my age and lives across the street. For the first twelve years in my life, these qualifications were all I needed in a best friend.

Viswanathan: How Opal Mehta

Got Kissed, Got Wild and

Got a Life (2006)

McCafferty: Sloppy Firsts (2001)

Problem 2

• Dan Browne “Da Vinci Code” sued for copyright violation by Baigent & Leigh authors of “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail” (1982)

• Claimed that Browne stole the idea that Jesus married Maria Magdalena and had children.

Disciplinary Measures

• Disciplinary measures may be taken if (Chapter 10 Higher Education Ordinance, SFS 1993:100):– Use of non-permitted material or tools– Attempts to deceive examiners– Disrupts or prevents teaching, examination

or other activities at university– Harassment of students or staff.

Attempt to deceive

• By using non-permitted aids or in other ways attempt to deceive in connection with examinations or other occasions when student work is assessed.

CHEATINGTo use non-permitted methods to attempt to gain an advantage.

NON-PERMITTED COOPERATION

When students collaborate in work that is intended to be conducted individually

Plagiarism

• Plagiarism is included in the concept of attempting to deceive the examiner.

• Plagiarism may be described as: any attempt by a student to use the ideas or words of others in an attempt to deceive the examiner into believing they are students own.

WHAT CAN HAPPEN?

What happens

• The department is required to notify the Vice Chancellor

• The Vice Chancellor may decide to:– Not proceed further– Hand out a formal warning– Defer to the university disciplinary

committee

The Disciplinary Committee

• May decide to– Not proceed further– Hand out a formal warning– Suspend the student for a period of up to six

months

• Suspension entails that the student may not participate in teaching, examination or other university activity

UNCERTAIN?

Ask!Ignorance is not a defence

Thanks!