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The days of fast paced internet and a changing online
environment are also challenging intellectual property. Intellectual property
is a huge issue at hand due to the increasingly controversial topic of “sharing”
and “public works” that are more public now than ever before. Textbooks and
public works are readily accessible without the payment or credit to the
original authors which can be problematic for new authors or scholarly authors
not wanting their works public or overly accessible. Plagiarism has increased
throughout universities and public school works as the internet has allowed
others to find sources but not always shows the citations for the sources.
In many
cases, universities have dealt with numerous cases of plagiarism involving Wikipedia.
Wikipedia compiles information from many sources to show common knowledge in a
vast database. When university students quote from sites like Wikipedia or
scholarly sites without citing sources is a huge legal issue and can also
subject those students to expulsion from the university system. It is
interesting to see that the president was checked on his plagiarism but can be understandable
when a man of his caliber has to reach to sources for explanations or providing
the public with credible details. Although
the university system can see lighter legal penalties, big businesses face huge
legal fees involved with intellectual property and claiming ideas or
information produced by another individual.
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