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Question:

an instance of plagiarism or other use of another’s intellectual property with which you are familiar. Please give one argument condemning this conduct and one argument defending it.

Plagiarism is using another person's work or ideas without giving credit to that person. Many students from schools and universities plagiarize their homework and present it as their own. Plagiarism is considered as a breach of honesty in the educational field. The plagiarism is impacting the news media and online blog posts also. Lizzie Crocker, a reporter for the Daily Beast has resigned after it was revealed that she plagiarized large portions of a recent article from the Weekly Standard written by Alice B. Lloyd (Miller, 2018). Movie and music industry faces the biggest problem, which is piracy. It is a form of copyright infringement and it became more common with the development of the internet. Now there are many websites which provide pirated copies of movies and music, which clearly violates the copyrights of the actual owners. This leads to huge losses for the movie and music industry due to loss of viewership and listeners. The peer to peer type websites like torrents increases this kind of activities. 

            Another recent example of copyright issue is ZURU filing lawsuit against Telebrands to protect the Company's award-winning Bunch O Balloons product from patent infringement (BusinessWire, 2017). The lawsuit against Telebrands states that the Company has been attempting to market competing products to benefit from the success of Bunch O Balloons.

            In India, the government has given rights to the movie distributor to fix their ticket prices and as a result, the ticket prices of the movies jumped from 30 INR to 70 INR in normal theatres. The ticket prices are even more pricey in multiplexes and Imax theatres. As a result, the common man is not able to watch the movies due to the greediness of the movie makers. Thus they are depending on pirated copies of the movies available online. I respect the value of the talent, ideas, and effort of movie makers but the prices they charge are out of range to their intellectual expenditure and financial expenditure. In this case, I support the Indian movie viewers. There should be a limit of charge and price when it comes to the intellectual property usage and copyrights in public domain.

Discussion 2:

Question:

an instance of plagiarism or other use of another’s intellectual property with which you are familiar. Please give one argument condemning this conduct and one argument defending it.

Plagiarism is most familiar in today’s world, it is nothing but a stealing another authors ideas and thoughts. It is one of the acts related to intellectual dishonesty and comes serious consequences. Plagiarism is a reckless representation of additional ideas of another author. There are different forms of plagiarism such as direct, mosaic, paraphrase, and accidental plagiarism. Plagiarism can be done intentional or unintentional (Nukui & Peace, 2015).

One of the examples related to plagiarism, Kenny Florian is a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) competitor. After his retirement, he had aided ad MMA commentator for the FOX sports. Fox sports will maintain trust and credibility with viewers. Kenny Florian was seen in FOX sports where he used to act as a co-host, presenter, and MMA analyst. On a fine day, Florian had posted the analysis of upcoming fight among “Ultimate Fighting Championship” (UFC), T.J. Dillashaw holder and Dominick Cruz was the challenger.

One of the twitter users analyzed the similarity between the texts in YouTube and article. In this case, Kenny Florian express regret for plagiarism that he was calling it has an error. After the investigation, it was clear that Florian was used the material from Wylie. Later on, the story has been reached to climax at victory speech, Cruz had called Kenny Florian and told him to stop copying in the MMA community (Bailey, 2016). After listening to it, Dominick Cruz was offended. Finally, Florian was suspended from FOX sports immediately because of critical oversight in the story which was posted in FOX sports. The condemning was copied the content from a different source or material that is Wylie mainly that is an unethical thing.