If you don't cite your sources properly, you are plagiarizing and that's bad news; not to mention a violation of the Undergraduate Academic Integrity Policy outlined in your Student Handbook.
"Plagiarism, which includes the intentional or unintentional copying of language, structure, or ideas of another and attributing the work to one's own efforts."
Some examples of plagiarism include:
Copyright laws grant creators exclusive rights to how their creation is used. A work is protected from the "...time the work is created in a fixed form" . Some examples are books, maps, charts, prints, photographs, music, drama, paintings, drawings, sculpture, movies, computer programs, records and tapes, dance, architecture, and characters. (Copyright Basics, 2008, p.1- 3), (Samuels, 2000)
For more information visit the official website for the U.S. Copyright Office.
Sources:
Samuels, E. (2000). The illustrated story of copyright. New York: St. Martin's Press.
U.S. Copyright Office. (2008). Copyright Basics. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
(Text used with permission from FSU Libraries.)
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