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It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny
to have a taste for collecting seashells
than to have been born a millionaire.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny
to have a taste for collecting shells
than to be born a millionaire ~ Robert Louis Stevenso
Inspiration Or Plagiarism?
Plagiarize \'pla-je-riz also j - -\ vb -rized; -riz·ing vt [plagiary] : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (a created production) without crediting the source vi: to commit literary theft: present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source - pla·gia·riz·er n
FROM: Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary 9th ed, (Springfield, Ma: Merriam 1981, p. 870).
Copyright: The exclusive statutory right of authors, composers, playwrights, artists, publishers, and distributors to publish and dispose of their works for a specific period of time. In the U.S. this period is 28 years, with the privilege of one renewal. - adj. Of or protected by copyright.
From: Funk and Wagnalls Standard Desk Dictionary. Library of congress catalog card No. 66-25079
The legal way to indicate the copyright of poetry you have written is as follows:
Copyright © (first date your poem was written) (name of poet).
Example: Copyright © 2001 Arlene M. Longson.
All poems posted in Seashore Poetry Critique forums must be the original works of the poster.I accept no responsibility for poems which are found to be plagiarized from another author. Any infringments are the sole responsibility of the poster. If anyone has information which indicates a particular works is not an original creation of a person who frequents this site, please email me with proof. All such works will be immediately removed, and the incident will be reported to the appropriate agency or person whom the infringment was committed upon. To report such an offense, click on the seashell below. Thanks!
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