Current top plagiarism technique used by Malaysian undergraduate and post graduate students! As parents, would you be concerned?

Today’s article is sensational! A few online friends of ours have disclosed that plagiarism has reached new heights here in Malaysia. In the past, plagiarism would be limited to copying materials from hardcopies or the internet. But now, Malaysian plagiarists have relied upon a new method that if we look at it closely might not be legally wrong!

I am not sure how and where they got this idea in the first place but it must have its origins somewhere from the internet somehow. Malaysian are known to be copycats, hence it is more likely that they copied this method from somebody else most probably from those outside of Malaysia. I’m sure that you are wondering what this hype is all about but believe me, I do have concerns of my own about disclosing this technique today. Today’s disclosure might create a tsunami wave of new plagiarists here in Malaysia and that is something that I personally feared dreadfully! However, I hope and pray that today’s disclosure would be read by concerned parents and higher learning institutions so that they would know what they are dealing with nowadays.

All right, what is this new top plagiarism technique you might ask? It still got something to do with the internet but it is not like what you ordinary might expect. Expert plagiarists have now relied upon materials classified as Public Domain to help them in their infamous acts of plagiarism. So what is Public Domain in the first place? Public Domain refers to any type of publications such as writings, arts, music and inventions that have no proprietary or legal jurisdictions. In another word, Public Domain materials can be used and exploited by anyone whether it is for commercial or non-commercial purposes. How is this possible? There are a number of reasons why certain publications goes into the Public Domain classification:

• Expiration of copyright, patent or any other types of proprietary restrictions and they were not renewed,
• The original author or publisher failed to provide satisfactory statutory formalities to complete the copyrighting requirements or
• They are produced by governments.

We were told that expert plagiarists in Malaysia are heavily looting Public Domain digital libraries and vaults, looking for technical Public Domain Ebooks and Journals that have some resemblance with their working term papers or thesis. Once found, they would later use them to fill in the blanks, complete their own shoddy term papers or thesis and proudly claim ownership once completed! How blunt can that be!

Amazing isn’t it? If this is what our Malaysian graduates have been doing while they were in campus, no wonder then there were so many of them especially those among the Malays who failed miserably in living up to the expectations of their corporate employers in the private sector. In the end, they would all queue up in numbers looking for jobs in the public sectors instead. Luckily for them, they have an easy way out.

Now that you knew what some of our Malaysian kids are doing in campus, where do you stand? As parents, would you be concerned? Please place your vote here.