Jessenia Colon's List: OAA-Legal Case Reply 1

• Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work or borrowing someone else's original ideas. But terms like "copying" and "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the offense
• to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
• to use (another's production) without crediting the source
• to commit literary theft
• to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
• plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.
• can words and ideas really be stolen
• The expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property and is protected by copyright laws, just like original inventions
• turning in someone else's work as your own
• copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
• failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
• giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
• changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
• copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)
• Performing another person’s copyrighted music (i.e., playing a cover
• Composing a piece of music that borrows heavily from another composition
• The legality of these situations, and others, would be dependent upon the intent and context within which they are produced. The two safest approaches to take in regards to these situations is: 1) Avoid them altogether or 2) Confirm the works’ usage permissions and cite them properly.

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• Copyrights protect authors of original works by United States law, under Title 17 of the U.S. Code. Copyright is given automatically to any original work created after 1978
• Copyrights can be given to literary, musical, dramatic, choreographic, architectural, pictoral, graphic and sculptural works, motion pictures, and sound recordings
• Copyright gives the author of the original work the right to decide who can use his or her ideas and who can reproduce, copy, and display or perform the work. The copyright will last for the entire life of the author and until 70 years after the author's death
• Infringement of copyright occurs when a copyrighted work is copied, distributed, performed, displayed or made into a derivative without the permission of the copyright owner.
• Incidents of plagiarism are not always intentional; there are many cases of accidental plagiarism. When writing or creating original material, plagiarism can be avoided by carefully citing the sources of materials in bibliographies or identifying the text materials used within the document.
• Be careful when you write, as plagiarism and infringement of copyright are serious criminal offenses!

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• legal options have been exhausted, and he will be forced to pay nearly $1 million from his own pocket
• plagiarized
• The San Francisco court upheld a 1994 lower court ruling that ordered the artist, Goldmark, and Sony Publishing to turn over $5.2 million in profits from the sales of Bolton's version of the song to the Isley Brothers.
• The jury had ruled the pair plagiarized the Isley Brothers song of the same name, after deciding the songs shared a number of the same elements.
• In this case, you have a song that never charted on The Billboard Hot 100, it never charted on the R&B charts where the Isley Brothers had tremendous amounts of airplay, it never received on citing on the BMI or ASCAP recordings tracking airplay, there was not one receipt for the supposedly commercially-released single -- there was none of the usual evidence that shows up where the plaintiff's burden is to prove a reasonable amount of access.
• had an opportunity to prove original, independent creation but the jury did not care about that -- it was maddening.
  
• what a travesty it was, what a horror it's been
• more of a psychological hurdle for me because my integrity is important for me
• 100% involved in the independent creation of this song, to have it torn from you forever and then to be fined for it, is an atrocity that is psychologically a very tough pill to swallow

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