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I'd like to add on a separate note and thought, remembering a case
where documents for device descriptions came my way:
I think, the case is more or less simple, in some ways:
If company A is connected, perhaps partner or customer/reseller of
company B, I would expect people from the respective management levels
to come to an agreement how and when to re-use technical data.
As long as the vendors/creators are fine with it and approve, I don't
see a problem in such cases. Either copying or rephrasing.
Copyright is supposed to protect 'creation source information' as it
were, credits - and the possible profit from that creation.
If those are not in jeopardy, but protected - all's well.
Have a fine day - or evening
Nina
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 02. November 2023 um 23:00 Uhr
Von: "Lin Laurie" <linlaurie1 -at- hotmail -dot- com>
An: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
Cc: "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Betreff: Re: plagiarism in technical communication?
Hi Gene,
We've chatted online before, but I know I've never met you in person. I
was in Silicon Valley for many years. I grew up in Fremont, went to
college at 16 starting at Ohlone. Then I moved onto West Valley
College, and eventually San Jose State before moving to Washington and
getting a degree in educational technology. I also worked at Microsoft
for 15 contracts in five years as a perm employee.
But I wasn't talking about you. Sorry about the confusion I should have
said that it was directed towards Alan Houser.
Sent from my iPhone
> On Nov 2, 2023, at 5:49 AM, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
wrote:
>
> The only circumstance I can imagine where accusations of
plagiarism *within the same company* might be used would be in an
attempt to get rid of a writer who could not be fired without some sort
of concrete evidence of malfeasance. I've never seen it happen.
>
> A possible sin that looks like plagiarism would be the failure to
research when updating a document, instead presenting an earlier but
out-of-date version as a new finished product. Again, I've never seen
it happen.
>
> As I may have related in this forum long ago, a new tech writer was
brought into our group and given the desk of someone who had just been
relieved of duty. The former writer's nameplate was still there. "You
had HER working here? WHAT DID SHE TELL YOU SHE WROTE? When we were
both at (other company) she was always passing off my work as hers."
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