Re: Copyright and plagiarism (RE: NYTimes.com Article: Moore Foundation funds new journals)

[J.F.Rowland@lboro.ac.uk]

Thanks for the clarification.  It seems to me that someone who wants to
allow everyone to read their work without payment might still wish to
retain copyright in it, so that they can control the channels through
which it is distributed.  For example, I would not want anything I'd
written to appear in any far-right political medium, even if it contained
my unchanged words, because I would not wish to be associated in any way
with such a source.  If the work is in the public domain, presumably
anyone can redistribute it.

Fytton Rowland (Loughborough University, UK)

Quoting Rick Anderson <rickand@unr.edu>:

> I think you're confusing breach of copyright with plagiarism. Claiming
> authorship of something you didn't write is plagiarism; selling or
> distributing copies of work to which you do not hold the copyright is
> a copyright violation.  A work that is in the public domain may be
> copied and distributed without penalty, but that doesn't mean you can 
> claim to be the author.
> 
> Rick Anderson
> rickand@unr.edu