Combating Plagiarism
Plagiarism is actually copying original ideas, thoughts, and final work by someone. It can also be termed as stealing literary job done by someone else. Plagiarists aim at receiving the acknowledgements, which actually they do not deserve. Through shortcut techniques, they reproduce good work by others in far lesser time with no meaningful effort of their own for inherent advantages, for example, name, fame, social, or financial gains, etc.
As a moral crime, majority of well-educated communities of the world disregard the acts of plagiarism. To protect and preserve the originality of work of actual authors/content writers, there is a definite need of providing a mechanism of security to both the work, and their authors. Presently, no substantial law, or security tentacle exists, which can hunt, arrest these plagiarists, and punish them to ensure their obliteration from our systems. Besides, the neglect in our behaviour has virtually allowed these criminals to prevail amongst us.
Out of all Medias, which are involved in literary work, cyber media has devised few ways, and means to protect original work, and discourage plagiarists whereas print/press yet lag behind in even checking these crimes. Following are a few steps, which may help us in leading to some possible solutions for combating this menace surviving around us.
• In international law, Plagiarism should be declared as a proper crime, and punishments be identified for the defaulters, which can be physical, and even financial.
• Electronic Media be exploited, and one odd case must be exemplified at the global level. Through this, awareness would come at the regional or national levels. Once punished, most of the bigger plagiarists would refrain. Everyone should use plagiarism software for checking the content.
• At the local level, similar punishments can be introduced, and few plagiarists once identified should be exemplified, which would slowly, and gradually shun these fissiparous elements from our systems.
