To: js1138
Ideas are not subject to copyright. Words are. I want to say that it takes stringing a few of them together, but I think Nike copyrighted "Just do it!"
182 posted on
12/04/2004 5:12:48 PM PST by
VadeRetro
(Nothing means anything when you go to Hell for knowing what things mean.)
To: VadeRetro
Copyright violation is definitely different from plagerism. Changing the wording gets you off the copyright hook, but not the plagerism hook. Standards are a little different in editorial writing; stealing ideas is SOP. Academics are a bit twitchier.
184 posted on
12/04/2004 5:17:01 PM PST by
js1138
(D*mn, I Missed!)
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