Plagiarism is an illegal act of taking one’s idea and making it as your
own without the recognition and approval of the original author or maker.
According to Republic Act No. 8293, Known as "Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines", Plagiarism is a crime. This law protect the patent and give rights to original author or maker who have been victimize of the crime called plagiarism.
Examples of plagiarism that you may not know this are; making someone’s work
or as your own, copying someone ideas without giving credit to that someone,
giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation and changing words
but copying the structure of the sentence, Using someone music, video or piece of image in your work without getting
proper permission or giving proper citation is plagiarism Some activities of
plagiarism are very common in today’s society, especially into social media
like Facebook, despite their popularity, they are still count as plagiarism. Copying
someone’s information, especially images, form other website and paste it on
your own website and paper.
Most cases of plagiarism can be escaped, however, by citing the information
or sources, just admitting that certain material has been borrowed and proving to your
reader and listener with the information needed to look for the source is usually
enough to avoid plagiarism.
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