Question

Sourabh has to prepare a project on “Digital India Initiatives”. He decides to get information from the Internet. He downloads three web pages (webpage1, webpage 2, webpage 3) containing information on Digital India Initiatives. Which of the following steps taken by Sourabh is an example of plagiarism or copyright infringement. Give justification in support of your answer.
a) He read a paragraph on “ Digital India Initiatives” from webpage 1 and rephrased it in his own words. He finally pasted the rephrased paragraph in his project
.b) He downloaded three images of “ Digital India Initiatives” from webpage 2. He made a collage for his project using these images
.c) He downloaded “Digital India Initiative” icon from web page 3 and pasted it on the frontpage of his project report.

Answer 1

a) is plagiarism.

Even if someone derives an idea or a product from an already existing idea or product, but instead presents it as a new idea, then also it is plagiarism.

b) is again plagiarism

Because he copied the existing images and presented them as a new idea in this case it is a collage.

c) is copyright infringement

Copyright infringement is when we use other person’s work without obtaining their permission to use or we have not paid for it, if it is being sold. Example, we download an image from the Internet and use it in our project.