6.5 Plagiarism


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	6.1 Privacy and security
	6.2 Censorship and freedom of speech
	6.3 Netiquette
	6.4 Intellectual property
	6.5 Plagiarism
		6.5.1 Your responsibility


	Glossary

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As well as protecting economic rights, the Copyright Act 1968 also protects the moral rights of a creator.

Individual creators have moral rights (whether or not they own copyright) to:

be attributed as the creator of their work
not have their work falsely attributed
not have their work treated in a derogatory way (Australian Copyright Council, 2005 p.2).

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is the act of presenting other people's words, ideas and creations as your own work. You are not presenting others' words ideas and creations as your own if you acknowledge that they belong to others. Plagiarism can happen intentionally or unintentionally and is probably the most common form of academic misconduct.

Plagiarism may take a number of forms, including:

using phrases or expressions by an author without acknowledgement
copying from Web sites, books, articles, newspapers, magazines, plays, movies and speeches
copying art work, photos, graphs, diagrams and music
copying from another student
using or developing ideas from another person's work
failing to use quotation marks
failing to summarise or paraphrase properly
failure to reference properly.

UC policy on plagiarism

Plagiarism is cheating and is regarded as grounds for failure, suspension and expulsion.

UC students need to read and understand the following:

Australian Copyright Council. (2005). Moral rights. Retrieved February 17, 2006, from http://www.copyright.org.au/publications/G043.pdf

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