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Creating HTML code is a creative effort, exactly the thing that copyright
laws and the ethical prohibition of plagiarism are meant to protect. Copying
the results of such an effort and claiming them as your own is plagiarism.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tracy Boyington [SMTP:tracy_boyington -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG]
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> > > I read the article
> > > (http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/webside28.htm) and
> > > though not a professional 'webbie' sent a message to them in disgust.
> > > I thought we were all taught not to plagiarize... lemme see... yup,
> > > since 5th grade I think, when we first started to really write.
>
> The article advocates "borrowing" html code but not content. It doesn't
> sound like plagiarism to me.
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