Plagiarism... Oh Boy... Not this again...

Hello big blogging world! How is everyone doing out there? If you're reading this and you should be working on some sort of term paper and were just looking for some website to take some "useless" information from, than leave! No, I'm just joking, you should most likely stay and learn a little lesson here, but you really should start that term paper.

Today my blogging prompt is simply plagiarism. And yes, very annoying, yet very important. Plagiarism, for those who have no gosh darn idea what it is, is the act of making someone's work your own without their permission and without citing their work either. This happens often with students, especially those lazy and forgetful enough to put off that huge term paper to the last day, and have to go online and copy documents completely for their paper! I know this doesn't happen to me in school, and hopefully not for you either.

In my junior year of high school right now, I am currently taking Law and American Society which takes an in depth look in law and other problems that occur from day to day life in our lives. I am telling you all this because we happen to be studying civil law right now, which is the act of one party against another party, usually in attempt to sue the other party. Now this situation happens a lot with conflicts over things like copyright, which is technically plagiarism! Copyright, again for those who do not know what it is, is the legal term for someone's exclusive rights to an object, and no one else may attempt to recreate it at all. This is the first thing I think of when I tumble across the term plagiarism.

Another thing I think of when I happen to be learning about plagiarism is all of those TV shows or movies that may take a line or idea from another TV show or movie. Now I'm sure most of you have either heard of something along these lines or even witnessed something that looked awfully peculiar and similar to some other show you watch. I found a clip that shows a great example of this exact idea. It is a combination of clips from the website College Humor, who actually took these lines and ideas from the movie Inception, and South Park who has been accused of plagiarizing College Humor's work. It is very clever and is actually a pretty amusing clip. Here you go (please excuse the last 5 seconds or so if you are easily frightened or do not like fake blood):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-ezqMhZA8&feature=related

That video is a pretty good summary of what happens often when movie makers or show makers release a new hit.

I found one other video that is pretty funny and is about plagiarism and may actually be considered plagiarism itself. The reason I say this is because if any of you readers have seen the Subway commercials who voice dub all the actors with really high, squeaky voices to make it humorous, this video may relate to it for you. Here you go again world:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC2ew6qLa8U

That video is pretty educational for being humorous, and as well as stressing the ideas in my opening paragraph for this blog. Well that's all the information and videos I have on plagiarism for my fellow bloggers today! And remember, don't put off that huge term paper to that late sunday night (I know I don't). I will blog with you later friends!

Godspeed.