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How to legally define the plagiarism and rational use in academia

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Frontiers of Law in China

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With regard to the protection of copyright, a difficult issue is how to differentiate rational use and plagiarism reasonably. This paper focuses to analyze the commonly-seen academic transcription by making a proposition that the judgment to it shall be conducted by the time, content and the similarity, which briefly introduces some major means for judging it and points out several difficult issues concerned.

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  • Jiang Jianming, Introduction to the Copyright Law, China Science & Technology Press, 1994.

  • Wu Handong, Studies of Systems for Rational Use of Copyright, Publishing House of China University of Political Science and Law, 1996.

  • Zheng Chengsi, Tutorial of Intellectual Property Law, Law Press, 1993.

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The writer’s main research is the pioneering issues of jurisprudence and he has published eight monograph books (including Criminal Victimology) and more than 0 academic theses.

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Tang, X. How to legally define the plagiarism and rational use in academia. Front. Law China 1, 616–628 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11463-006-0029-y

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