Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Attacking From All Sides: Strategies to educate students and faculty on copyright and plagiarism issues Rosalind Tedford and Elisabeth Leonard Z. Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University Copyright Rosalind Tedford and Elisabeth Leonard, This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Wake Forest University 3500 undergraduates 1500 graduate students 400+ faculty All students, staff and faculty issued IBM ThinkPads on a 2-year rotation. Primarily wired campus, moving toward wireless in the next 12 months

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Z. Smith Reynolds Library Supports the undergraduate college, Graduate School of Arts and Science, and the Graduate Divinity School Over 1.3 million volumes 54 full-time staff members One of the top academic libraries in the southeast for library expenditures per student

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Existing Intellectual Property Programs Information Systems Faculty Training Student Training

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Copyright: Information Systems Copyright statement part of official university policy on Ethical Computing IS Program “Think For Yourself” encourages responsible computer use, especially concerning copyrighted materials IS is responsible for responding to legal challenges against students

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Copyright: Students New student ThinkPad orientation IS Student Programs Training (RTAs, STARs Dreamweaver classes Other multimedia training classes Information literacy elective course

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Copyright: Students Assume they want to do the easy/cheap thing Explain: –The concept of intellectual property –Why the media producers are upset –Why universities are targeted –How downloading/sharing affects the campus network –What they can do to advocate alternative models Explain what they can and cannot do (specifics) and the consequences of not complying Find a hook (parent’s $$; college record)

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Copyright: Faculty Faculty ThinkPad exchange training Blackboard courses Dreamweaver courses Brown Bag Lunch sessions with the TLC Tech Talk sessions Individual Q&A (ITC and Reference)

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Copyright: Faculty Assume they want to do the right thing Qualify Fair Use according to the law Explain new issues with digital media (DMCA, TEACH) Discuss how they can bring issues up with their students Provide frameworks and alternatives that make compliance easy (e-reserves, streaming servers) Use concrete examples Explain file sharing issues

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Plagiarism What is it? How do you discuss it? Who should be involved in the discussion?

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Plagiarism Statement at WFU To put your name on a piece of work is to say that it is yours, that the praise or criticism due to it is due to you. To put your name on a piece of work any part of which is not yours is plagiarism, unless that piece is clearly marked and the work from which you have borrowed is fully identified. Plagiarism is a form of theft. Taking words, phrasing, sentence structure, or any other element of the expression of another person’s ideas, and using them as if they were yours, is like taking from that person a material possession, something he or she has worked for and earned. Even worse is the appropriation of someone else’s ideas. By "ideas" is meant everything from the definition or interpretation of a single word, to the overall approach or argument. If you paraphrase, you merely translate from his or her language to yours; another person’s ideas in your language are still not your ideas. Paraphrase, therefore, without proper documentation, is theft, perhaps of the worst kind. Here, a person loses not a material possession, but something of what characterized him or her as an individual….

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Plagiarism statement continued Plagiarism is a serious violation of another person’s rights, whether the material stolen is great or small; it is not a matter of degree or intent. You know how much you would have had to say without someone else’s help; and you know how much you have added on your own. Your responsibility, when you put your name on a piece of work, is simply to distinguish between what is yours and what is not, and to credit those who have in any way contributed. From Academic Writing at WFU, departments/english/courses/writing_guide.htm#Plagiarism, accessed 6/03. departments/english/courses/writing_guide.htm#Plagiarism

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Plagiarism: Faculty Discuss the issues –Workshops –One on one contact Be aware! Solutions –Writing seminars –Change the assignments –Librarians can track down citations –Librarians can teach how to cite –ITG’s for plagiarism software

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Plagiarism: Students Writing seminars ThinkPad orientation Through start menu One shot instruction sessions Information literacy course At reference desk

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Plagiarism: Students Open a dialog –They’re busy –They never understood the problem –It’s easy to do –Everyone does it Provide solutions –Intellectual property –Research is a process –Teach proper citation styles –Research logs Find a hook -- help their grades!

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Lessons Learned It’s too easy to come off sounding like ‘big brother’ Copyright law is an ever-changing landscape Plagiarism is NOT the same as copyright, but people often think it is All stakeholders need to be on the same page

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Tips for Others Do your homework Get representatives from every affected campus community involved Don’t talk down to anyone Eliminate the big brother mentality Assume good intentions – even if you have proof to the contrary!

Leonard and Tedford 6/03 Questions?