Study on Awareness about Plagiarism among Teaching Staff in the Educational Institution

Abstract

Human being by using intellectual ability creates some creative work including literary work. The creation of literary work requires lot of intellectual labour, time, money etc. Such intellectual creation is the personal property of the creator or author. It is to be protected under different laws under different heading like it is protected under freedom of expression, right to privacy, copyright etc. It means no one entitle to use such creative work without permission. It means that author enjoy monopoly right over it like right to protect, right to preserve, right to transfer, display, right to destroy etc. In short author entitles to enjoy fruits of his intellectual labour by excluding others which is called as John Lock Labour Theory. Under plagiarism all this right of the author infringed & which will cause mental, economic loss to the author as well as reduce the quality of work. Plagiarism is short cut way to complete the target in minimum labour, time & money as well as there is no special legislation to deals with this issue, lack of awareness, no harsh penalty all are lead to increase the cases of plagiarism. It shows academic dishonesty as well as breach of ethics. Issue of plagiarism is social, moral, ethical and legal wrong. It is called as intellectual theft. There are different kinds of plagiarism but all are causing to reduce quality of research work. It means that such issue not only cause loss to the author but causing loss to the society. In India it broadly comes under Copyright Act, 1976, University Act. But these laws are fail to eliminate plagiarism from educational institution or form the society. The researcher through this study want to brought a light on such burning issue as well as make certain suggestions which will helpful to reduce instances of plagiarism.