Is Plagiarism a Cyber Crime? A Review
- Author Umesh Prasad
- DOI https://ww
- Country : India
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Keywords : Duplicating, Plagiarism, Cyber Crime, Unethical.
Abstract
Each and every action depends upon information which may be in any form. Today, in the digital era, the credits or values are being taken or given only by delivering or receiving the information. It makes the person richer or poorer. Duplication of anything raises the problem and confusion. While copying or duplicating makes the things easier and save the time and cost but, if a credit is being earned only by copying and no recognition is given to the generator or innovator of any product or information, it gives the losses economically, socially and discouragement to author or writer. Within academia, such type of activity is considered as academic dishonesty or academic fraud and a term was given as ‘Plagiarism’. Presently, it is observed that online databases, especially Google which are being made available free are playing major role in the academic fraud. Apart from academic, any theft or fraud is considered as crime and legally the actions can be taken. It would be cybercrime if it is done by means of computers or the internet. A copyright law and acts exist for any unlawful act even in the field of information usage, but what about plagiarism. Is only plagiarism detector software are sufficient for accepting and rejecting the research paper? No, there is a need to review the issues raised related to the plagiarism either unethical or crime as well as to find the solutions for the discouragement of plagiarism.
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