Here in the fast pace Cyber Space, the infringement of the Intellectual Property Rights has been so rampant nowadays.

This is especially true of students stealing the works and writings of others, download them and called it their own. There are also a business, selling these papers such as Business Plans, Marketing Strategies, Employment Application Letters and so on.

Alibaba does not condone such acts of plagiarism, and will remove them and deduct the MVP from their scoreboards, after evidences of this acts are produced.

Street Smart

Quoting from [Street Smart]:

Both of you are right.

As Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English:

Plagiarism - n. 1. An act of using someone else's words, ideas, or work and pretending they are your own.  2. An idea, phrase, story etc that has been copied from someone else's work, without stating that this is where it comes from.

The New Webster Dictionary makes it even more vicious:

Plagiarism - The act of plagiarizing; the crime of literary theft. which comes from the word  Plagiary:- a kidnapper, manstealing (plagiarius) kidnapping, from (plaga): One who steals the words or ideas of another and p them off as his own; a literary theif.

However there are many cases of "quotation" where one mere quotes the words or phrase, E.g. I quoted a phrase from the famous speech of Abraham; "YOU CAN FOOL SOME PEOPLE, SOME OF THE TIME, BUT NOT ALL THE TIME, NEITHER ALL THE PEOPLE AT ANY TIME." I changed it a bit, by rephrasing it, but I gave him the credit for this wise words. ..... am I a plagiarist?

There are many incidences of copy and paste texts, phrases, writings of others in this Forum that is evident of this act. However, there is no clause in Alibaba's Rules that plagarism is a violation, only SPAM and TRADE LEADS.

My next issue is the discussion of TRADE LEADS. How would you define TRADE LEADS?

Street Smart

Quoting from [Street Smart]:

Here in the fast pace Cyber Space, the infringement of the Intellectual Property Rights has been so rampant nowadays.

This is especially true of students stealing the works and writings of others, download them and called it their own. There are also a business, selling these papers such as Business Plans, Marketing Strategies, Employment Application Letters and so on.

Alibaba does not condone such acts of plagiarism, and will remove them and deduct the MVP from their scoreboards, after evidences of this acts are produced.

Street Smart

Plagiarism is the practice of (dishonestly) claiming or implying original authorship of material which one has not actually created, such as when a person incorporates material from someone else's work into his own work without  attributing it

  Shakespeare's appropriation of stories into his plays may be considered plagiarism, except that Shakespeare never claimed that the stories were his own, and his transformations of them were so great that they served as literary sources, not as copied materials.

Within  academia, plagiarism is seen as academic dishonesty and is a serious and punishable academic offense.

Non-attribution in ipse is not necessarily plagiarism; it is only such when the norms of the community are affronted. In normal discourse, it is not usual to make attribution. Likewise, use of non-attributed Biblical phraseology or quotations in a sermon is acceptable. To an extent, accusations of plagiarism seem to be attracted by a perceived hubris on the part of their target.

Three acts are plagiarism: (1) failing to cite quotations and borrowed ideas, (2) failing to enclose borrowed language in quotation marks and (3) failing to put summaries and paraphrases in your own words."

Other experts say that absence of quotation marks is not by itself plagiarism. However, if they have been removed to hide plagiarism, that proves the plagiarism is deliberate.

  These are extracts from my study and modified to understand for the members. We can elaborate and give more  examples and more pages. I stop here this is enough to get 50MVP