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Chapter 6 -
Cyber Theft
Laws Against Plagiarism
According to the United State Constitution,
”The Congress shall have power to promote the
progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to
authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their respective
writings and discoveries”.
The U.S. Supreme court has also addressed the
plagiarism issue, and also uses the Lanham Act to justify punitive
damages for plagiarism.
In 1948, Doubleday copyrighted and published
General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s book, Crusade in Europe, which
was about the D-Day invasion. Fox Television later created a TV
series based on the book.
For the fiftieth anniversary of World War II, a
third party company named Dastar edited the Crusade in Europe
television series, added some new material, and released a video set
called World War II Campaign in Europe without attribution to
Fox.
In the famous Dastar vs. Twentieth Century
Fox case (539 US 23), the court found Dastar guilty of
plagiarism for copying Twentieth Century Fox material without giving
them proper credit:
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