Plagiarism is on the rise. And experts say that by 2014 level of plagiarism on the internet will exceed 63%.
Online plagiarism is everywhere – Audio, video, web-data, social media etc. Sometimes it feels like crappers are gradually taking charge of the whole online world.
The word plagiarism is derived from a Latin word called plagiarius - means kidnapper, or someone stealing someone else’s work.
In academics and journalism plagiarism is taken very seriously and there are provisions of strong disciplinary measures against it. Unintentional plagiarism by not giving appropriate citation to the original source may be due to lack of knowledge. But it’s also considered crime.
Take for example – the blogging world. There are numerous WordPress Plugins available which automatically post articles from the blog, without even writing a line (by spinning articles). Novice bloggers are also not far behind. They also never hesitate to copy and paste content from other sources, without thinking about the final consequences.
Below is an INFOGRAPHIC about plagiarism, prepared by plagtracker.com which tells a story of 2 lives and reminds us “how costly plagiarism can be.”
Always remember – Life of a plagiarist may be adventurous, but it’s short lived and costs heavily.
As a blogger – Do you have any experience of plagiarism? I mean, has anybody stolen your original work and published on own blog? Share your experience in comments below.
About Nandita B.
My name is Nandita B, and I’m a SEO practitioner and part-time blogger. My sheer passion for sharing knowledge a webmaster needs drove me to create “A Webmaster’s Magazine” called SEOHour.com
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Awesome topic nandita, Really informative, but it’s really difficult to find topics by yourself to attract visitors thats why everbody is spinning content of others. Anyways i ll never ever try to copy or spin content of others. Thankyou for advice.
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In that case the online news portals will hit first. Even every news channel also shows the same news daily in their own way. Will it consider as plagiarism?
If something is unique and some one is copying that without credit, then it is crime. Kindly correct me if I am wrong.
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A good way to teach people right way of BLOGGING.Funny and interesting
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The content spinner software must be banned, as the stolen contents are doing business with some good backlinks on their site, while the original writers are losing their visitors instead of great efforts. There must be a good and fast solution for that.
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Hey Nandita! Thanks for the nice post – I enjoyed the graphics very much- I hope some more people will take the plagiarism into consideration and work together to make it less possible- I saw once an entire site copied and translated into another language- even the theme and colors!
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Thanks for sharing the infographic Nandita. Coming to my experience as a blogger: it was not one, but many bloggers who copied or reproduced my articles or my site’s designs. Others copy and writers suffer……
Plagiarism is what I called one of the modern crimes. If not for technology, I would not know that indeed one of our Senators here in my country are copying his speech from well-known politicians. He eventually got caught and was aske d to publicly apologize for what he did. Good for him he wasn’t sued.
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