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Copyright Infringement: Copyright infringement occurs when a person copies someone else’s copyrighted items without permission. This would also include public display of a copy of copyrighted work. Penalties: If it is determined that a person is guilty of copyright infringement, penalties could include a court order to stop producing that item, confiscation of the items, and paying the owner of the copyright any profits you received (or could have received) as well as attorney fees. Plagiarism: Using or closely imitating another person’s material without permission, acknowledgment or compensation, representing it as one’s own work. Plagiarism is illegal when it involves infringement of copyright. Under copyright law, an individual found guilty of infringement of copyright is liable for either (1) actual damages suffered by the copyright owner as a result of the infringement, and any profits of the infringer that are attributable to the infringement; or (2) instead of actual damages and profits, statutory damages of a sum of not less than $250 nor more than $10,000, as the court considers just. Additional remedies for infringement are detailed in the copyright law. Plagiarism may also occur legally—that is, without copyright infringement—when material in the public domain, noncopyrighted works, or works in which the copyright has expired are reprinted under claimed authorship of the plagiarist. While this type of plagiarism is not illegal, it is nevertheless unethical. A writer discovered to be a plagiarist of uncopyrighted works, while not liable under the law, will nonetheless establish an exceedingly bad reputation for himself as an author. To avoid plagiarism, a writer should give full credit to his sources of information and obtain written permission from copyright owners to use their copyrighted material in his own work. I have read the following information regarding my rights and responsibilities as the author and copyright owner. I also grant permission to the publishers, Donald Anderson and Nichole Quismondo to register my poetic works, as part of a collective work, to the Library of Congress U.S. Copyright Office. (more information about copyright laws can be researched at http://www.copyright.gov) *Note for form: Please send this copy with your other signed documents. Please make a copy of this document for your records or we can send you a copy upon your request. Thank you for your participation in this matter. |
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