Don't touch it!
Do you want to be a minister of South Korea? Then plagiarize a paper! Many appointees to the ministers have to attend on hearings. However, we could easily see the news about hearings which told the appointees' plagiarism of a paper. In South Korea, many people are not aware of copyright law so people easily copy and download the other's intellectual property even they are men of rank. Please don't touch the other's works because there is a risk of plagiarism. For protecting the copyright I recommend three tings; teaching the students about copyright law, increasing regulations for plagiarism, and making the system easy to pay the cost.
In South Korea, students don't learn the concept about copyright law or plagiarism in elementary school. Many students first learn about it when they have to do assignment in the college. However there's many internet sites which selling the paper and their friends buy it, students also did plagiarism without sense of guilt. The elementary school teachers should teach the students why it is important to keep the copyright law. It's not only for protecting the students from copying the other's work but also for teaching them how valuable the works are. If we know how the other's intellectual properties are the fruit of one's effort, then we surely take paying the cost for granted.
Last semester, I took a writing class and some students copied the Wikipedia for answering the question. However professor only gave zero points for that question and not gave any other penalty. I think this could not arouse student's attention because students think they were just unlucky. There's the rule in every college which treat the students with cheating very severely. However, in reality, students and professors don't want to make a noise so they treat the plagiarism as a small mistake. If we want to live the honest society, we have to give strong penalty to the person who plagiarized the other's work.
When I find the images and thesis, it's easy to click on the right mouse button to copy and paste but hard to find the way to pay the cost for copyright. If portal sites make the system easy to pay the cost, the illegal plagiarism will be decreased. We don't know which image is free to use and which has its copyright. Person who is not good at using computer could make a mistake if there's no caution mark. Therefore adding the function which helps to protect copyright law is recommended. If government starts the public advertisement about internet copyright law, it would help people to use the internet source more safely.
In daily life, we have risk of plagiarism if we don't care about it. There are many people who are accused by copyright law. They download the documents, film, and images because the things are easy to find. However, everything on Internet has its owner. Therefore, don't touch it before you know it's safe to use. For following the copyright law, the education about copyright law from elementary school, increasing the regulation for breaking the copyright law, making the internet sites easy to pay the cost are needed. If we follow these three steps, every copyright owners and downloader will get benefits.
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