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A Taxonomy Of Borrowing, Jacqueline D. Lipton Ph.D.
A Taxonomy Of Borrowing, Jacqueline D. Lipton Ph.D.
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
While copyright infringement is a legal wrong, plagiarism is a breach of academic and market practices. However, few authors of literary works truly understand the difference between the two. Copyright law seeks to protect economic interests in an underlying work, while plagiarism—and in countries where moral rights are robust, associated legal rights—protect the integrity of the work and the author’s claim to the work. The digital age has refocused attention on the kinds of claims an author or copyright holder might make with respect to unauthorized uses of a literary work. The ease with which a digital work may be …