Timeline for Can copyright prevent claims of self-plagiarism?
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| Dec 16, 2015 at 0:10 | answer | added | Captain Emacs | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 20, 2015 at 23:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/667843688131895297 | ||
| Nov 19, 2015 at 18:00 | comment | added | Azendale | @BenVoigt I would love to learn extra, but I would much prefer to do it out of the classroom (tests and deadlines take the fun out of learning). I see a degree as a certification of a minimum level of competence/knowledge. Am I at a disadvantage because I previously took the effort to learn elsewhere and now need more competence for the same degree? Credit by examination may be the solution, but I have only seen it done on an entire course level, not for an individual paper. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 17:42 | comment | added | Tyler Durden | You are always allowed to sue yourself. The benefit of doing this is that you always win. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 17:32 | history | edited | Azendale | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added a note about how this fits into my situation personally, since some people seemed to be reading into what I was asking
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| Nov 19, 2015 at 14:00 | comment | added | Todd Wilcox | There are situations where the author of a work does not automatically own the copyright. Works for hire are normally owned by the employer or client, for example. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 13:01 | comment | added | JeffE | I don't believe you can self-plagiarize. — You're welcome to believe whatever you like, but you're still subject to the consequences of breaking the rules. — If the goal of the assignment is to teach you something, and you already learned it in the past — It's the process of creation that teaches you something, not the product. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 10:22 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | ... writing the code. I wouldn't deduce any points, but it would make me wonder whether the student has a general problem with distinguishing relevant information from irrelevant trivia. But, as I said, this might be seen totally differently in other fields or other types of assignments. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 10:21 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | ... Of course, there are exceptional cases where some code written in a student project is bound to a specific non-waivable license, but most (e.g. weekly) assignments are not like that. The most straightforward interpretation is that any code written for such assignments belongs to the student's personal codebase from which they can freely draw at any time. In such a case, I would perceive explicit remarks about which previous assignment a particular code snippet was first written for to be on the same level of chattiness as telling me what the student had for breakfast on the day of ... | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 10:21 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @BenVoigt: Maybe that is field-dependent, but from a CS-angle, I would argue it is a best practice for students to be aware they can reuse some previously written code for another assignment and thereby reduce their workload (and better yet, if that is a result of writing the original code in a way that made it sufficiently adaptable to fit future assignments). The context certainly matters; for papers, there is an expectation of novelty, which is why self-plagiarism matters. In class assignments, on the other hand, I only expect authorship, but not novelty - the more reuse, the better. ... | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 8:23 | comment | added | Davidmh | The university can see you and raise you that they automatically own the copyright of everything you write for them; and now they can forbid you from keeping a copy for yourself. I have no idea if it would stand up in court, but the university surely can make it more of a PITA for you than what you can make it for them. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 8:09 | answer | added | Dan Romik | timeline score: 16 | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 8:05 | comment | added | Bakuriu | If I were a professor I'd simply fail your examination since your work cannot follow the guidelines of the university (well, if there are). | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 5:02 | answer | added | tpg2114 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 3:12 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | You've identified a problem (being expected to waste time learning something you already know) and come up with the only wrong solution (turn in the same work a second time). There are many better solutions, I'll name two: (1) credit by examination (2) doing an equal amount of work on the same topic that starts where you previously left off, and therefore goes farther than your classmates. Learning more than your classmates is only a problem in a fairytale with equal outcomes for everyone, in the real world it is a very good thing. | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 1:57 | answer | added | D.Salo | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 1:33 | answer | added | Nate Eldredge | timeline score: 23 | |
| Nov 19, 2015 at 1:33 | answer | added | jakebeal | timeline score: 24 | |
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| Nov 19, 2015 at 1:05 | history | asked | Azendale | CC BY-SA 3.0 |