[LINK] Wikipedia Critic Finds Copied Passages

Marghanita da Cruz marghanita at ramin.com.au
Wed Nov 8 16:48:28 AEDT 2006


Glen Turner wrote:
<snip>
> Plagiarism is a lack of attribution. It is not traditionally
> related to copyright, [The "moral rights" of copyright are
> an attempt to allow a lack of attribution to be corrected
> through the copyright laws, but that is a weak right when
> the information in the work is being reused rather than the
> work being reproduced.]
<snip>
Doesn't the moral right belong with the human author/s rather than the 
publishers
- I would be surprised if they were credited in the original.
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