For my students' papers, I don't expect permission from authors cited, just
a correct and complete American Psychological Association format citation.
But, as you point out, these are only between teacher and student (and
occasionally accrediting agency officials 8-0 ) and not broadcast or
published. I agree that the teacher was irresponsible, analogous to my
sending off for publication one of my students' papers without checking
veracity of facts (or if it included non-research type work, such as the
copyrighted photos, permission of copyright holders). I think this would be
basically a universal understanding of intellectual property (?).
Just goes to show how, in the age of Internet, the intellectual property
attorneys are "cleaning up" (making lots of money).
----- Original Message -----
From: camdeng2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: plagiarism
> >
> > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:35:09 +0100 (MET), karin van veen wrote:
> >
> >
> > Oh, I couldn' leave it alone, I just sent an answer back. (I know
> > that some of it is inaccurate, you don't need to comment it for
> > me...)
>
>
> I can see exactly what has happened. The kids at this school are learning
> to make web pages. They are told to choose a subject they are interested
> in and are allowed to copy material from the web to supplement their own
> knowledge as this is the easiest way of doing it. We do this with our
> students. BUT we do not post the resulting web pages on the net for all
to
> see. They are just shown to the teacher and commented on in the same way
> as any other assignment. As far as the teacher is concerned, the main
> teaching issue is the making of the pages. The content is not that
> important and it is unlikely that the teacher would check all the
student's
> facts.
>
> So the person who is at fault here is not the student, but the teacher.
It
> is the teacher you need to take issue with. Obviously he/she has no
> concept of netiquette and copyright laws. Copyright laws are different in
> every country. In the UK, schools are given quite a lot of freedom to
copy
> things provided that it is only for use within school. For example we can
> teach a play and do it in class without paying royalties. However, as
soon
> as the play is performed in public, even if the public are only the
> students' parents and friends, then royalties have to be paid.
>
>
> Sue
