Intellectual Property Rights - Copyright and plagiarism issues by V. Sriram in Statistical Inference and Intellectual Property Rights Webinar Series, Morning Star Home Sciene College, Angamaly and MGU-STRIDE, Kottayam, India. 4th September 2021.

1. Intellectual Property Rights -
Copyright and plagiarism issues
V. Sriram
Chief Librarian, K.N.Raj Library
Centre for Development Studies
Thiruvananthapuram
4th September 2021

2. CONTENTS
Copyright
Types of copyright
Fair use
Open Access / Free access resources
Plagiarism
Plagiarism issues
Plagiarism detection tools
Tips to avoid plagiarism

3. Avenues of Publication
 Journal article
 Article in a collection
 Contribution to
newspapers
 Book
 Book editorial
 Book section / chapter
 Book review
 WP / OP / Notes
 Commentaries
 Internal or external
report
 Dissertation / Thesis
 WP / OP / Notes
 Popular publications
 Blogs / Wikis
 Multimedia
 Video
 Podcasts

4. Copyright
Copyright is the legal right to intellectual content in
any form
The owner holds the exclusive right to make
multiple copies of the work
It protects the owner by preventing others from
It protects the owner by preventing others from
illegally reproducing the work in any format.
Protection to authors, performers, producers,
artists, etc. To stimulate their creativity.
Any mature society should protect and nurture the
creativity and safeguard culture.
Copyright thus leads to growth and development of
the country.

5. Copyright
Economic rights
Royalty
Sale
Moral rights
Can be transferred or
reassigned
Personal rights of owner
Integrity
Attribution
Cannot be transferred. It remains
always with the author.

6. Fair use
Non-commercial limited use
Education and Research
News reporting
Commentary
Book reviews

7. Open Access
Revolt against exploitation by publishers
New movement to provide free access of knowledge to all.
OA Resources
Books
Journals
Video
Images
Data

8. Directory of Open Access
Books
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open
https://www.doabooks.org
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open
Access books.
43651 Academic peer-reviewed books and book chapters from
653 publishers.
Free to access and download.

9. Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 56,000 free eBooks: Choose
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg offers over 56,000 free eBooks: Choose
among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or
read them online. You will find the world's great literature here,
especially older works for which copyright has expired.
Free to access and download.

10. Directory of
Open Access
Journals (DOAJ)
http://doaj.org/
Directory of Open Access Journals is an online directory that indexes
and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Provides more than 16638 journals in all subjects.
Free to access and download

11. PLOS
https://www.plos.org/publications
Public Library of Science is a non-profit publisher.
Top quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.
Free to access and download.

12. You Tube
-Filters
- Features
- Creative Commons

13. Google Images
-Tools
- Usage Rights
- Creative Commons License

14. Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/ - Any License
- Creative Commons

15. Open Govt. Data
Platform, India
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is
https://data.gov.in
Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India - data.gov.in - is
a platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of
India. The portal is intended to be used by Government of India
Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets,
documents, services, tools and applications collected by them
for public use.

16. Copyright
Remember to check the copyright information of all materials
before you use them.
Try to use Open Access resources more and more
Always be aware of your rights as a an author, and never
Always be aware of your rights as a an author, and never
infringe upon others rights.

17. Plagiarism issues
Taking other peoples words and pass off as one’s own
Plagiarism instances
Copying a large portion
Failing to put quotation marks / indentation
Missing out citations / references
Copying and changing words here and there
Self plagiarism

18. Plagiarism Checking
Technology to trace plagiarism in documents using similarity
between documents and sources.
Commercial tools - Turnitin, Urkund
Free s/w
Academics – zero tolerance policy to plagiarism
Academics – zero tolerance policy to plagiarism
UGC Academic Intergity Act 2018
Journal Editorial Policy

19. UGC Academic Integrity Act 2018
Clause 7. Similarity checks for exclusion from
Plagiarism
The similarity checks for plagiarism shall exclude the
following:
i. All quoted work reproduced with all necessary
permission and/or attribution.
ii. All references, bibliography, table of content,
preface and acknowledgements.
iii. All generic terms, laws, standard symbols and
standards equations.

20. UGC Academic Integrity Act 2018
Clause 7. Similarity checks for exclusion from
Plagiarism
Note
The research shall be based on original ideas, which shall
include abstract, summary, hypothesis, observations,
include abstract, summary, hypothesis, observations,
results, conclusions and recommendations only and shall
not have any similarities.
It shall exclude a common knowledge or coincidental terms,
up to fourteen (14) consecutive words.

21. Turnitin

22. Urkund

23. https://copyleaks.com/

24. https://www.duplichecker.com

25. https://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker

26. https://www.prepostseo.com/plagiarism-checker

27. http://scanmyessay.com/

28. Avoiding plagiarism
Thorough literature search and reading
Copy from external sources as little as possible
Use quotation marks / indentation for all external sources
Include citation and references for all external sources
Develop your own writing style, and adhere to it

29. Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
V. Sriram
Email: vsrirams@gmail.com