Plagiarism is the act of claiming someone's work or idea as your own. It is taking another person's property without permission or secretly. Plagiarism is stealing. Stealing is a crime. And crimes are illegal.
As I am writing this blog, I am trying to define Plagiarism by my own words, without looking at the dictionaries, encyclopedias or in the internet. For what this is what our professor has been practicing us. Since I have ideas regarding plagiarism, I am now exercising to avoid it.
As an artist, we are also victims of plagiarism. I have experienced this before. I spent nights designing our team's uniform. Seeking advices and ideas on my father. Confident on the output of my hard work. On that day I was expecting to win an award, I was surprised that the other team has the exact uniform design as ours (but just differ in color). I talked to this girl, she is insisting that it is their creation. I do not feel any sincerity in every words she said. I know she is lying. I know I should have won. During that night, I cried a lot. I told my father what just had happened that day. Of all the people, he knew how much effort I exert for that design. I put my heart in every artworks or creation I did.
In my opinion, those who commit plagiarism are those who do not have the guts or confidence that they can create something meaningful. Something they would be proud of. They do not believe in their own selves of making original works.
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