Plagarism

Martin Stabe is a little angry with a student at Uclan who lifted a piece that he wrote for Press Gazette ont their blog without any attempt to cross reference.

The piece puts a good light on the Journalism department as it tells that three graduates from last year have successfully completed their training at the Sun.

Unfortunately as Martin says

"Journalism schools need to teach their students that blogs are internet publications like any other. They are public on the internet and can be read by anyone in the world with an internet connection. They are subject to the same media law as any other publication, including libel and fair dealing in copyright."

I suppose that this comes back to the debate about regulation of the blogsphere and whether there should be some code of conduct.