Music plagiarism is specifically meant by using the music, or tone or applying a very close tone or using the imitation of music of any other composer or author. This is not regarded as plagiarism until it is presented in one’s own original music work. There are different aspects and facets of plagiarism. Mainly, plagiarism in music occurs in two contexts that include; taking the melody or motif of the music, and another kind of plagiarism occurs when sampling is done in music. Read the rest of this entry »

Plagiarism is the real menace which is eating up our literatures and creative field of arts and it is very important to understand the types of plagiarism to avoid it completely. It is important to protect the identity and individualism of the arts and literary works. There are different kinds of plagiarism found in literature and other forms of arts. It is important to understand these different types of plagiarism so that the individuals may be able to protect their genuine and original pieces and works from being copied.

Direct plagiarism is the kind of plagiarism which is concerned with taking or copying the whole material from any source like internet, any piece of writing, a book, a website or any other source of this kind. In this way the students usually get their assignments prepared and unknowingly they commit a huge crime. Moreover in this kind of plagiarism, the copier does not even bother to point out the source by using any words of reference.

Another very famous kind of plagiarism is the switching of words. This is usually done by means of the software. In this kind of plagiarism, the writer or copier usually changes the sequences of word of sentences in order to change the meaning of that specific writing. In other words this kind of plagiarism is more concerned about the stealing the ideas of writing and not the exact wording. This kind of plagiarism is even more fatal and deadly for the word of arts and literature because in literature of any kind basic thought and main idea is the real essence from which the whole write up is brought out and the concept is clarified.

Some kind of indirect plagiarism is the one in which the copier is not directly copying the text or document. Instead the plagiarism s removed to the maximum extent but the name and source of the original document from which the idea was taken is kept hidden. In another type of this category of plagiarism, the source may be used many times in the literature but it is mentioned only once. In cases when you use a source multiple times, then you should also mention it equally when it is used.

In order to avoid these uninviting situations when plagiarism may get detected and it can cause the cancellation of the document or writing, certain steps should be adopted. This will be helpful a lot in adding good creations and original work to many genres of literature as well. The first and foremost direction in this regard which is given to the students is that they should always do their assignments themselves. This is least bothered especially in case of academic work. However it is the most essential thing to do in case of preparing any academic assignment because it may be referred to or used by any other student in future. In those cases if the assignment is already plagiarized it can also ruin the work of other students citing the document. The credibility of the writer can be greatly hampered and even a genuine document of his may be foreseen with skeptical eyes.

There are many different ways to find the duplicate text, or multimedia event which is surely considered under the category of plagiarism. Usually, the websites are concerned about finding out the plagiarism content of the website and therefore the web administrators keep looking for new ways to avoid copywriting plagiarism content for website. All these findings are carried out regardless of the fact that whether the problem of plagiarism exists in infringement with the copyright or not. Moreover, some websites and copywriting companies also do not consider it a problem of primary concern. Read the rest of this entry »

Basically plagiarism is depicted by including someone else’s ideas and thoughts in one’s writings and not giving him or her proper credit in form of reference or acknowledgment. In some other cases the language is even kept the same which is very unethical. As it regards to the plagiarism in article content, it is very obvious that any kind of plagiarism is not tolerated. This is because different online sources of plagiarism check and software set ups are available which can detect any kind of copying or forgery within minutes. Read the rest of this entry »