Is plagiarism the same as copyright infringement?
Plagiarism generally means taking and using another person’s ideas, writing or inventions as your own. Plagiarism is not a legal term, and not all acts of plagiarism are necessarily infringements of copyright. A student or academic may breach the ethical standards expected of them by presenting someone else’s ideas as his or her own, but he or she might not infringe copyright if the other person’s ideas are expressed in a new way. Generally, academic practice requires that acknowledgment be made of other people’s research and ideas.
