Copyright is defined in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary as:

"The exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something (such as a literary, musical, or artistic work)."

His family still holds the copyright to his songs.

Copyright Resources

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Plagiarism is defined in Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language as:

“To steal or purloin and pass off as one’s own the ideas, words, artistic productions of another; to use without due credit the ideas, expressions or productions of another.”

Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to the following examples:

• Directly quoting or paraphrasing all or part of another’s written or spoken words without notes or documentation within the body of a work.

• Presenting an idea, theory, or formula originated by another person as the original work of the person submitting that work.

• Purchasing or receiving in any other manner a term paper or other assignment that is the work of another person and submitting that assignment as the student’s own work

• Repeating information, such as statistics or demographics, which is not common knowledge and which was originally compiled by another person.

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