Is plagiarism the same type of stealing as music piracy?

 Today, many people prefer to download music or buy copy CDs from hawkers because these ways are cheaper and easier than buying legal original music CDs or downloading copyrighted music from Internet. Basically, it knows as a one type of stealing and making music piracy which similar to make plagiarism. In other words, in music piracy, people steal others labor and violate intellectual property fact as same as plagiarize others works.

 

With downloading music illegally, people can steal others labor. In this situation, they don’t pay the fee for each artist’s labor. Then, illegal music downloading becomes a typical type of stealing. In plagiarism issue, each writer uses the some parts of others’ works and creates his/her own work. With it, he or she steals these artists’ labor and use it for his/her purposes. ( O’Rourke,2007 pg.1). If compared to stealing as music piracy, same type of event is seen because in this event people steal artists’ labor as same as plagiarize others’ work and using it for their purpose. However, without any paying, they don’t care the time or effort which was given by artists. In the same way, some of the writers do the same thing with copying some parts of other works.

 

  Stealing as a music piracy can violate intellectual property as same as plagiarism. Today, many people buy music CDs or books and they think that they are physical items only. However, in reality these CDs or books are not only physical items. Each of them has own intellectual property and protected by rights.(Moore, pg.3) On the other hand, each basic writing or essay has intellectual property too because each of them are created by only one person’ opinions and effort. However if other person use it without make any citation and just copy some parts of this essay, he/she will violate the intellectual property of this work. In other words, he/she uses it without caring intellectual property or writers’ effort.  As similar to music piracy, illegal music download in the terms of making music piracy can violate the intellectual property of each artist’s song.

 

 To sum up, music piracy overlaps with plagiarism issue in many ways. In this type of piracy, people don’t respect the labor which was given by each artist and violate the intellectual property. These issues can be seen in basic plagiarism event too. If each person, who tries to make her/his own work, plagiarizes other works, he/she will commit same things which are seen in music piracy.

 

 

 

 

References:

O’Rourke M. (2007). The Copy Cat Syndrome Plagiarist at Work

Kırszner, L.G, Mandell, S.R. The Blair Reader Exploring Contemporary Issues Sixth Edition.  Is Music Piracy Stealing? USA: Pearson Prentice Hall

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