Korean comments on plagiarism

Kim Tae-ick at Chosun Ilbo began a column on plagiarism with the words:

The word "plagiarism" comes from a Latin for "kidnapper." The derivation obviously equates the theft of other people's intellectual properties with kidnapping their ideas.

This text confuses plagiarism (copying without attribution) with intellectual property (copyright infringement: reproducing copyrighted material without permission). One can plagiarize Shakespeare without stealing his intellectual property.

After making an ironic allusion to Harvard (a plagiarism center: Tribe, Kearns-Goodwin, etc.), the author wrote:

Indeed, American universities' education against plagiarism and the penalties it entails have proven themselves strict and thorough time and again.

Hmmm, ask Glenn Poshard (SIU's plagiarist president) about that one.

Of South Korea, the author wrote:

Few places can be more riddled with plagiarism than Korean universities (...) Meanwhile, even professors here are often embroiled in controversies surrounding plagiarism and repeated submissions of the same papers.

Think back to K. Y. Cha, Kim's thesis and Fertility & Sterility.

See

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2007/10/cha-goes-after-flamm-over-plagiarism.html