Alyssa Jeanne B.

Armas

June 28, 2013 Englsh 3 4:00 5:00MWF

Plagiarism is the act of taking another person's writing, conversation, song, or even idea and passing it off as your own. Whenever you paraphrase, summarize, or take words, phrases, or sentences from another person's work, it is necessary to indicate the source of the information within your paper using an internal citation. It is not enough to just list the source in a bibliography at the end of your paper. Failing to properly quote, cite or acknowledge someone else's words or ideas with an internal citation is plagiarism.
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/whatisplag.php

Another case of plagiarism

Cayetano, the chairperson of the Senate women and family relations committee, stands accused of copying sentences without saying they came from reports of the Department of Health (DOH) and the United Nations Environment Program (Unep) in her speeches.
Nary an attribution

The Pinoy Templars mentioned a February 2011 speech Cayetano gave on The Status of the Philippines in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in which she said that most mothers prefer to give birth at home with the assistance of traditional birth attendants. Cayetano said the preference becomes a problem since where mothers and newborns are distanced from life-saving interventions provided in health facilities by health professionals during intrapartum period, maternal and neonatal deaths are high. She added that mothers do not routinely choose to deliver in health facilities and avail (themselves) of professional services due to several barriers, such as (1) hostile hospital system, (2) poor interpersonal skills of staff, and (3) financial, physical, social and cultural constraints. The Pinoy Templars said a quick search on the Internet showed that Health Undersecretary Mario Villaverde in April 2008 gave a PowerPoint presentation in the 7th National Health Sector Meeting where his piece, Accelerating a Unified Strategy to Save Mothers, Newborns and Children had basically the same message and the same wording. The group also noted that Cayetano delivered a more recent speech on World Environment Day quoting a crucial paragraph from the website of Unep with nary an attribution.
No oversight

A portion of Cayetanos speech during the event said: Practically speaking, a green economy is one whose growth in income and employment is driven by public and private investments that reduce carbon emissions and pollution, enhance energy and resource efficiency, and prevent the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. To which the Pinoy Templars retorted: Practically speaking, this is plagiarism. The group then posted an image taken from the Unep website where the quote that Cayetano read originally appeared. Senator Pias apparent plagiarism could probably be excused as a mere oversight at most or a careless mistake at the very least. But a woman of her stature and pedigree is definitely way beyond a mistake that could very well have been committed by an elementary pupil or a reckless high school student submitting a plagiarized term paper, they noted. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8293 AN ACT PRESCRIBING THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CODE AND ESTABLISHING THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICE, PROVIDING FOR ITS POWERS AND FUNCTIONS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES SECTION 1. Title. This Act shall be known as the "Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines." http://www.ipophil.gov.ph/ "If an act of plagiarism amounts to a copyright infringement under the Intellectual Property Code, a special law, then the violator may likewise be held liable under the Cybercrime Prevention Act if he/she used information and communications technology (ICT) for its commission," Chapter 10 of the law talks about the Moral Rights of an author. Section 193 talks of the Scope of Moral Rights, which includes the right to require that the authorship of the works be attributed to him, in particular, the right that his name, as far as practicable, be indicated in a prominent way on the copies, and in connection with the public use of his work. The law clearly provides that the name of the author should be prominently mentioned when his or her work is used publicly. In other words, even if I made a blanket statement that everything I said in a particular work was taken from the work of others, that does not satisfy the requirement of the law. I have to mention the name of the author from which I took my words or ideas. Therefore, using different words or even a different language but expressing the same ideas is plagiarism. According to Section 217 of RA 8293, Any person infringing any right secured by provisions of Part IV (The Law on Copyright) of this Act or aiding or abetting such infringement shall be guilty of a crime punishable by: (a) Imprisonment of one (1) year to three (3) years plus a fine ranging from Fifty thousand pesos (P50,000) to One hundred fifty thousand pesos (P150,000) for the first offense; (b) Imprisonment of three (3) years and one (1) day to six (6) years plus a fine ranging from One hundred fifty thousand pesos (P150,000) to Five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000) for the second offense; (c) Imprisonment of six (6) years and one (1) day to nine (9) years plus a fine ranging from five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000) to one million five hundred thousand pesos (P1,500,000) for the third and subsequent offenses.