Friday, July 11, 2003

I wish this had been available to me last year to bang home the possible consequences of plagiarism

The article below outlines ten copyright myths andbriefly explores why each of the statements made is not strictly correct.

Free Pint Newsletter 140 - Copyright, Product Development: "MYTH 2

The information is accessible to anyone on the World Wide Web. It is
therefore in the public domain and internet users have an implied
licence to copy the material.

Untrue. Just because information is accessible on the Web, there is no
implied licence to copy it. Under UK law, copyright material sent over
the Internet or stored on Web servers will generally be protected in
the same way as material in other media"

Google
Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.