Patent Law

Plagiarism code itself plagiarized?

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

The story included: Materials from [a five year old] conference, which are used by many universities, were probably the main source of UTSA's code, Thusu said. That's why parts of the UTSA draft match word-for-word the online version of Brigham Young University's code. BYU credited the Center for Academic Integrity, but UTSA didn't.

[information from AP through San Antonio Express-News}

Full post as published by IPBiz on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).