Plagiarism and Intellectual Copy Rights

Abstract

Academic plagiarism is on the rise at colleges and universities. This paper is an attempt at understanding what plagiarism is all about. This is an effort at bringing in an awareness, sources of plagiarism and the ways to avoid it in research. The various forms of plagiarism and the negative outcomes of such intellectual theft are also discussed. The types of plagiarism, the causes and consequences of plagiarising works also form a part of this study. Intellectual copyrights and ways to safeguard them and the limits of copyright protection are also examined.