Re: Plagiarizing

Subject: Re: Plagiarizing
From: AlQuin <cbon -at- WXS -dot- NL>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 11:37:17 +0100

On 05-01-1999 15:47 Debbie Figus wrote:

>Folks,
>
>I specifically meant the following scenario:
>
>You are glancing through another companyís manual.
>You read the following sentence:
>
> Our Company is interested in the applications
> you develop with our products, and we want to
> help if you have problems with them.
>
>Itís a nicely written sentence, says everything it
>needs to, and you were just about to work on the
>Customer Support section of your manual.
>Can you/would you use this sentence? Is there a
>legal element to copyright and a moral one for
>plagiarize? Would either of these obligate us
>to twist and turn it around so it's our own creation,
>even if that means it's not as pleasing a sentence?
>
>
Just re-edit the quote in stressing your help function by starting with it?

It may protect you against claims...

My 2 eurocents
Kees de Bondt


AlQuin
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