Re: Plagiarism

From: Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:11:24 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 sstouden[_at_]thelinks.com wrote: 

>

> I am 100% for a rule of law which would require that a group of non
> original sentences, phases, or words of science or works that are true art
> included in a new work be cited as to source, ...

Requiring attribution with the force of law is a very distant cousin of censorship. With such law, you are forced to either be silent or copy words only with attribution. Else, you can be jailed all just for copying words without attribution. In this case, there is no true freedom of speech and press.

If I build a bookcase, I don't have to tell where I get wood, nail, and paint. Likewise, I don't have to tell where I get words, phrases, and sentences except such action may result in copyright infringement.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo[_at_]voicenet.com>

Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 5,950

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Tue Sep 17 2002 - 00:13:39 GMT

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