Terminology
Attribution: the ascribing of a work or an idea to a particular author or artist
Citation: the act of directly quoting or giving intellectual credit to another person's work or idea
Collaboration: to work together especially in a joint intellectual effort
Copyright: the legal right granted to an author, composer, playwright, publisher, or distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work.
Common Knowledege: can be defined as facts known by a large number of people. These "facts" do not have to be cited. For a printable handout discussing common knowledge.
Cyber-Plagiarism: copying or downloading in part, or in their entirety, articles or research papers found on the Internet or copying ideas found on the Web and not giving proper attribution.
Deliberate Plagiarism: Waltman describes intentional plagiarism as "the wholesale copying of another's paper with the intention of representing it as one's own". In addition, the definition of deliberate or intentional plagiarism includes the theft of another person's ideas.
Fair Dealing: the use of copyrighted material in such a way that it does not infringe on the copyright of that material. However, in the case of criticism, review, or news reporting, the user is required to give the source and the author's, performer's, sound recording maker's or broadcaster's name if known.
Infringement: a copyright gives one the sole rights to produce or reproduce one's work through publication, performance and so on, or to authorize such activities by others. Anyone who engages in such activities without permission is infringing on the copyright holder's rights. One specific form of infringement is plagiarism.
Intellectual Property: a form of a creative endeavor that that can be protected through a copyright, trademark, patent, industrial design or integrated circuit topography.
Paraphrasing: 1. a restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning.
2. The restatement of texts in other words as a studying or teaching device.
Paper Mill: a term applied to providers of pre-written term papers and other "educational tools" via the Internet. Some web sites offer thousands of papers online.
Plagiarize: to steal or pass off as one's own (the idea or words of another); use (a created production) without crediting the source; to commit literary theft; present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
Public Domain: a work in the public domain is free for everyone to use without asking for permission or paying royalties. The phrase "public domain" is a copyright term referring to works that belong to the public.
Unintentional Plagiarism: can be described as "careless paraphrasing and citing of source material such that improper or misleading credit is given" .
Shared from the University of Alberta Guide to Plagiarism.