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University of Massachusetts Amherst

2008

Medicine and Health Sciences

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Data Management And Whistle-Blowing, Michael C. Loui Feb 2008

Data Management And Whistle-Blowing, Michael C. Loui

Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse

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Text As Property / Property As Text, Christopher Kelty, Alfred Housman, Scott Mcgill Jan 2008

Text As Property / Property As Text, Christopher Kelty, Alfred Housman, Scott Mcgill

Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse

Ownership, authorship, plagiarism, intellectual property, parody, critique, re-use, credit, reputation, allusion, imitation, patronage, payment, piracy, creativity, originality, borrowing, lending, stealing, quoting, citing, lifting, re-writing, translating, acting, performing, impersonating, collaborating, re-creating, editing, sampling, sharing.

If you can distinguish between all these activities, legally, morally, culturally and historically, then you don't need our class. If on the other hand, you want to know why ancient Romans sampled Virgil so often, or why some plagiarism is art and some is crime, or what could happen to manuscripts in antiquity when they circulated, or why the RIAA is suing thousands of college students, or …