AW: [governance] Plagiarism and intellectual property

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 >  Civil society in rigid regimes fighting for civil rights and  
freedoms, get their legitimacy to a high degree from their "ethical  
approach" to do the "good things" . . .

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On 15 Dec 2011, at 11:11, Kleinwächter, Wolfgang wrote:

> Hi
>
> let me add one point here which seems to me is important. There is  
> no academic work which comes out of the box. Every academic author  
> uses material which was produced by other authors. The right to  
> quote (free of charge) is part of the right to freedom of  
> expresssion. The question in the Guttenberg case was that he did not  
> mention the sources where he had his ideas from. If he would have  
> giveb the exact sources, this would have been okay. Probably a  
> critical evaluation of the PhD would have come to the conclusion  
> that he has good quatations but no own ideas. But this is another  
> story. The core of the case which led to the outcry in the German  
> academic community was his "unethical behaviour".
>
> There are pieces of academic work where you can find more quotations  
> than text written by the author him/herself. This can be a creative  
> contribution to the global knowledge because it is hard work to find  
> and combine all the good ideas available from numerous authors  
> around the globe. If the author combines the quotations in a  
> creative way this is okay. But it is the duty of the author to point  
> to the source where he had a certain text from.
>
> This is my problem with Guttenbergs appointment. He has disqualified  
> himself with his unethical behavior. Civil society in rigid regimes  
> fighting for civil rights and freedoms, get their legitimacy to a  
> high degree from their "ethical approach" to do the "good things".  
> The risk with Mr. Guttenbergs support is that with his lost  
> credibility, he undemines also the credibility of the groups he  
> wants to support. For a surpressive regime it is easy to argue if  
> they combat their dissidends - which they label as "criminals" -  
> that those people are inspired and supported by a guy who lost his  
> job is as a result of "unethical behaviour" and has at home  
> supported Internet blocking and surveillance. This could become very  
> counterproductive for the Internet freedom activists in rigid regimes.
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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