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Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement -Foundations of Interdisciplinary Research on Plagiarism from the Perspective of Copyright

Not a few plagiarism cases have been brought into courts, which has grabbed attention in Korea for the last few years. However there are so many confusions in the concept of plagiarism and the standards between plagiarism and proper citation among court cases as well as scholars. Plagiarism is a very important concept because it lies at the very foundation of academic field. It is urgently necessary to establish the standards and guidelines of plagiarism and proper citation. Plagiarism can be defined as the act of stealing and passing off the ideas or expressions of others as one's own without proper attribution. Plagiarism is different from copyright infringement in their areas and legal effects. There are legal merits in discerning them in some reasons specially from the viewpoint of victims of them. Plagiarism is a problem of morality rather than a legal issue. It requires an interdisciplinary research of Ethics, Library and Information Science, and Copyright Law. I hope the desirable guidelines of proper citation will be established in the near future through this article.