WHAT IS COPYRIGHT?
Federal Copyright Law tries to protect the reproduction of someone else’s work. Note that even if you give credit for such work (and hence avoid plagiarism), you are not necessarily allowed to use someone else’s work due to copyright restrictions. Paraphrase: Phrase that, imitating in its structure another known one, is formulated with different words, definition given by the DRAE.
HOW IS PLAGIARISM AVOIDED?
Throughout the writing process, it is necessary to refer to external sources. The citations (said text must be written in quotation marks), it must be identical to the original text. The work can also be paraphrased, that is, rewritten in your own words. In both cases the full reference of the source should be noted. However, even if a reference is provided, this does not necessarily remove the copyright restrictions, which limit the use of someone else’s material.
WRITTEN REFERENCES
When someone writes the reference to the source from which the information was taken, they have the option of choosing different systems to do so, for example: Harvard or Oxford. In the first, you must write the author’s last name and the year of publication in parentheses; the full reference will be found in the bibliography. In the second, a number is placed in the text which refers to a footnote and / or the full reference will be found in the bibliography.
