Rob,
I hate to be pedantic but the confusion between the legal and ethical
questions of copying and the ethical question of plagiarism plagues too
many design discussions. If they "quite openly" copy designs then they
are NOT plagiarizing. Plagiarizing is explicitly or implicitly making a
false claim of authorship. If they make no such claim they may be all
sorts of things we hope we are not but they are not plagiarizing.
Gunnar
On Dec 16, 2004, at 11:19 AM, Rob Curedale wrote:
> Some manufacturers quite openly copy their designs from other
> manufacturers. The products that win the plagerism awards (Golden
> Knome)
> openly are exact imitations of existing products and they break
> international conventions of what is ethical or legal to copy.
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>> Gunnar Swanson <[log in to unmask]> 12/16/04 01:11PM >>>
>> I think to qualify as plagiarism work product cannot be used generally
>> as a public good; it is the act of pretending that the work is
>> original
>> to the plagiarist that makes it plagiarism. As such, Rob's example of
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