19th August 2009, 02:06 PM
I can't provide legal information but this is my 2-cents worth--I worked with a PI who did this occassionally:face-huh:; worked with a BA who did this fully and consistently:face-confused:; studied with an English gal who said she did this on her dissertation and bragged about it[?]; college lecturers may take student ideas and make them their own[:0]; PhDs may plagarize ideas, theories, field findings and credits and publish as their own; some may make honest errors and then correct them. Some Archaeology may not be high on the scale of integrity.
Cut and paste without citation is a breach of copyright law from physical texts/books/magazine etc. or from the Internet whether there is a copyright notation or not. Best to keep up your copyright declaration on each webpage.
we don't know what we don't know
Cut and paste without citation is a breach of copyright law from physical texts/books/magazine etc. or from the Internet whether there is a copyright notation or not. Best to keep up your copyright declaration on each webpage.
we don't know what we don't know