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Intellectual Property on Campus: Students’ Rights and Responsibilities by
Summary: What issues arise when students' uses of intellectual materials are legally challenged, and how does the academic context affect them? What happens when users of intellectual property, either within or outside the academic structure, violate students' rights to their intellectual products? In Intellectual Property on Campus, TyAnna K. Herrington addresses these concerns and more, clearing up the confusion often surrounding intellectual property law and its application in an academic setting. Filled with practical information and simple yet thorough explanations
The Little Book of Plagiarism by
Review: "An exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape - plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film - by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. What exactly is plagiarism? How has the meaning of this notoriously ambiguous term changed over time as a consequence of historical and cultural transformations? Is the practice on the rise, or just more easily detectable by technological advances? How does the current market for expressive goods inform our own understanding of plagiarism? Is there really such a thing as "cryptomnesia," the unconscious, unintentional appropriation of another's work? What are the mysterious motives and curious excuses of plagiarists? What forms of punishment and absolution does this "sin" elicit? What is the good in certain types of plagiarism?"--BOOK JACKET.
Who Owns Academic Work? : Battling for Control of Intellectual Property by
Table of contents: Building an epistemic regime -- An uncommon controversy -- "University lectures are sui generis" -- Metes and bounds -- Telling tales out of school.
Infringement Nation by
Written on the occasion of copyright's 300th anniversary, John Tehranian's Infringement Nation presents an engaging and accessible analysis of the history and evolution of copyright law and its profound impact on the lives of ordinary individuals in the twenty-first century. Organized around the trope of the individual in five different copyright-related contexts - as an infringer, transformer, pure user, creator and reformer - the book charts the changing contours of our copyright regime and assesses its vitality in the digital age. In the process, Tehranian questions some of our most basic assumptions about copyright law by highlighting the unseemly amount of infringement liability an average person rings up in a single day, the counterintuitive role of the fair use doctrine in radically expanding the copyright monopoly, the important expressive interests at play in even the unauthorized use of copyright works, the surprisingly low level of protection that American copyright law grants many creators, and the broader political import of copyright law on the exertion of social regulation and control. Drawing upon both theory and the author's own experiences representing clients in various high-profile copyright infringement suits, Tehranian supports his arguments with a rich array of diverse examples crossing various subject matters - from the unusual origins of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the question of numeracy among Amazonian hunter-gatherers, the history of stand-offs at papal nunciatures, and the tradition of judicial plagiarism to contemplations on Slash's criminal record, Barbie's retroussé nose, the poisonous tomato, flag burning, music as a form of torture, the smell of rotting film, William Shakespeare as a man of the people, Charles Dickens as a lobbyist, Ashley Wilkes's sexual orientation, Captain Kirk's reincarnation, and Holden Caulfield's maturation. In the end, Infringement Nation makes a sophisticated yet lucid case for reform of existing doctrine and the development of a copyright 2.0.
Crisis on Campus by
"Crisis on Campus" presents an overview of the phenomenon and handling of academic misconduct. After a brief historical background, it discusses contemporary circumstances that affect the nature and frequency of academic misconduct. It then details the phases of misconduct discovery and investigation: detection, analysis, assessment, reporting, and institutional handling. The final chapter deals with prevention. The book focuses on concrete cases, showing the complexities and ambiguities in dealing with presumed academic misconduct. The book also provides practical advice to both whistle-blowers and those accused of academic misconduct. The book pays special attention to plagiarism as one of the most frequent but also most complex forms of academic misconduct. It analyzes the various degrees of possible plagiarism, detection techniques, challenges in proving plagiarism, and denial tactics. It gives valuable advice on how to report and handle cases of alleged plagiarism, both by students and by professionals.
Law School Plagiarism v. Proper Attribution (PDF)
This publication from the Legal Writing Institute discusses, with examples, plagiarism and how and when to properly cite an author.
The Writer's Handbook: Avoiding Plagiarism
From the University of Wisconsin Madison, this publication covers plagiarism and how to properly quote and paraphrase.
Safe Practices
Purdue's Online Writing Lab has created a guide of best practices for avoiding plagiarism.
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Robert D. Bills, Plagiarism in Law School: Close Resemblance of the Worst Kind, 31 Santa Clara L. Rev., 103-133 (1990).
Justin Carter & Lillian Corbin, Is Plagiarism Indicative of Prospective Legal Practice?, 17 Legal Educ. Rev., 53-66 (2007).
Catherine L. Fisk, Credit Where It's Due: The Law and Norms of Attribution, 95 Geo. L.J., 49-117 (2006).
Kristin Gerdy, Law Student Plagiarism: Why It Happens, Where It's Found, and How to Find It, 431 BYU Educ. & L.J., 431-440 (2004).
Deborah Gerhardt, Plagiarism in Cyberspace: Learning the Rules of Recycling Content with a View towards Nurturing Academic Trust in an Electronic World, 12 Rich. J.L. & Tech., 1-29 (2006).
David Glenn, The Price of Plagiarism, 51 Chron. Higher Educ., A.17 (2004).
Naveed Imran, Electronic Media, Creativity, and Plagiarism, 40 SIGCAS Comp. & Soc’y, 25-44 (2010).
Anita Jowitt, The Impact of Plagiarism on Admission to the Bar: Re Liveri [2006] QCA 152, 11 J. S. Pac. L., 213-217 (2007).
Pamela Samuelson, Good Legal Writing: Of Orwell and Window Panes, 46 U. Pitt. L. Rev., 150 (1984).
