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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Open Access movement in the Age of Innovation and ICT

Copyrght: is the exclusive right to publish and distribute a work. Copyright is a bundle of rights, automatically assigned to the author(s) by legislation in most countries. Copyright is the exclusive right of the author to derive economic benefits from his own writing or artistic performance or creative work.
      The infringement of the copyright in a work occurs if one or more of the following acts take place without the aurhtorisation of the copyright owner
1. Reproduction of the work in the material form
2. Publication of the work
3. Communication of the work to the public
4. Performance of the work in Public
5. Translation of the work.

Digital copyright protection technologies

Digital water mark technology is the form of stenography in which copyright and other source information is hidden inside a document, image or sound file without the user's knowledge, but copies will retain the information.

Cryptography involves encryption of information to render it unreadable or not understandable language, which only the legitimate user can decrypt.

Electronic Marking is generated by the computerthat is tagged to each of the digital object. The computer also registers the recipient of an illegally copied digital object.

Digital Signature, also known as electronic signature is an electronic data attached to associated digital object and serves as a system of authentication. This concept is to make the data illegible for everyone else except those specified.

Plagiarism

"to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own; to use without crediting the source; to commit literary theft; in other words, an act of fraud.

Types of Plagiarism as listed by plagiarism.org

  • The Ghost Writer
  • The Photocopy
  • The Potluck Paper
  • The Poor Disguise
  • The labour of laziness
  • The self-stealer
Other types of plagiarism not listed by plagiarism.org
  • The Unintentional
  • The Unconscious
  • The Photographic Memory
  • The Archives Digger
  • The Inspired
Also, there are other forms under situations cited to be plagiarism
  • The forgotten footnote
  • The Misinformer
  • The Too-perfect Paraphrase
  • The Resourceful Citer
  • The Perfect Crime
Editors: Dr. Ancy Jose; Dr. Prathiba A. Gokhale; Santosh C. Hulagabali published by HIMALAYA PUBLISHING HOUSE PVT. LTD.