(n.) The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution.
(n.) An encroachment on a patent, copyright, or other special privilege; a trespass.
Example Sentences:
(1) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
(2) She said the UK law on assisted suicide infringed Pretty's human rights, under article two of the European convention – the right to life.
(3) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
(4) At this time, the BPI was running its famous Home Taping Is Killing Music campaign, following concerns that cassettes would aid the infringement of copyright and a decline in album sales.
(5) By applying the law practically and properly, explaining carefully how it is being applied, and reporting to parliament and making public how it is being enforced, the government plans to show clearly that the people’s right to know will not be infringed on,” he told reporters.
(6) David Cameron is to be warned by the European commission that a central demand in his renegotiation of Britain’s EU membership terms is likely to be rejected as unacceptable on the grounds that it risks infringing the founding principle of the EU on the free movement of people.
(7) They said that would present problems because there were bylaws around compressed gasses it might be infringing.
(8) Search engines bear responsibility for introducing people to infringing content - even people who aren’t actively looking for it”, said Chris Dodd, the chairman of the MPAA who is also a US senator.
(9) All to play for in that one – and Rockstar has a cherry on top, which is a separate case against Google where it claims the search company infringes a search patent filed in 1997, before Google even existed.
(10) As altered, the bill now allows for ISPs to be required to block access to sites that allow "substantial" infringement.
(11) Another lawsuit obliged Ian Hamilton to rewrite large sections of an unauthorised biography published in 1988 – the supreme court ruled that quotations from Salinger's letters infringed his copyright.
(12) Yet it seems to be that aspect of the invisibility of the URLs that's really troubling the people who are lobbying Mandelson (because this is obviously not something he's discovered from surfing the net; I do, a lot, and I've not seen anyone complaining about the Evil of Cyberlocker Copyright Infringement).
(13) Part of the legal submission, quoted by the LA Times, declares that: "In order to close financing to produce a motion picture based on Effie, [the plaintiff] must be able to demonstrate that there is no validity to Mr Murphy's claim of infringement."
(14) Erdoğan’s government has been perceived by liberal wings of Turkish society to be infringing on the secular traditions established by the father of the modern Turkish state, Kemal Ataturk.
(15) The court also ruled that Samsung infringed one of Apple's patents related to the screen's bouncing back ability and banned sales of the Galaxy S2 and other products in South Korea .
(16) Mr Justice Arnold said in a written judgment: "In my judgment, the operators of [The Pirate Bay] do authorise its users' infringing acts of copying and communication to the public.
(17) The policies have begun to infringe on the private lives of media professionals, dictating what they can and can’t say in a private capacity, outside of their work.” SBS colleagues of McIntyre said he is a “contrarian” and “a loose cannon”.
(18) The RIAA's lawsuit was filed on behalf of labels Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Capitol Records, while the MPAA's lawsuit includes studios Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, Paramount Pictures, Universal, Colombia Pictures and Warner Bros. "When Megaupload.com was shut down in 2012 by U.S. law enforcement, it was by all estimates the largest and most active infringing website targeting creative content in the world," said the MPAA's senior executive vice president and global general counsel Steven Fabrizio, in a statement.
(19) In their petition, the residents said the gang's activities and the ever-present threat of violence infringed on their constitutional right to live in peace.
(20) Without the judicial bypass procedure Justice O'Connor would have invalidated the statute as unconstitutional, for conflicting with the best interests of the minor, infringing on family autonomy, and failing to foster the state's alleged goal of improving parent-child communication.
Plagiarism
Definition:
(n.) The act or practice of plagiarizing.
(n.) That which plagiarized.
Example Sentences:
(1) I never accuse a student of plagiarizing unless I have proof, almost always in the form of sources easily found by Googling a few choice phrases.
(2) Unethical conduct in research can be divided into five categories: 1) falsification of data, in which the researcher manipulates results, provides data without experimentation, or biases the results to give a false impression of their value; 2) failure to credit others (former colleagues, students, associates) for research results or ideas; 3) plagiarism, use of other's published material (ideas, graphs, or tabular data) without permission or credit; 4) conflicts of commitment or interest in which work or ownership in a private firm in some way conflicts or detracts from the duties to the institution they represent or allows private gain through the individual's employment at the institution; 5) biased experimental design or interpretation of data to support public or private groups that have provided financial support for research.
(3) Fresh evidence of Independent journalist Johann Hari's habit of alleged plagiarism has emerged from a lengthy interview with Afghan women's rights activist Malalai Joya in July 2009.
(4) This quasi-science, which regards nation-states as living entities and was one of the sources of Nazism, was the subject of a book he published in 1968, and which was attacked by specialists outside Chile for comprehensive plagiarism.
(5) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
(6) How big a problem is cheating and plagiarism among students?
(7) Whelan – who was one of the first bloggers to accuse Hari of plagiarism, and has since found other examples – concludes Hari is "taking other people's interviews and passing them off as his own".
(8) Recent charges of plagiarism have not been limited to Mexico .
(9) The decision, coupled with a ruling by New York district court Judge J Paul Oetken in December against a separate claim of plagiarism by the American writer Eve Pomerance , author of two unfilmed screenplays about the Victorian scandal, means Effie is now able to be released.
(10) A s a writing teacher at Boston University I can usually detect plagiarism.
(11) Simon Kelner, the editor-in-chief of the Independent, described the online plagiarism row over star columnist Johann Hari as "politically motivated" and "fabricated anger" at lunchtime on Wednesday.
(12) Thompson had been accused of plagiarism by the American writer Eve Pomerance, author of two unfilmed screenplays about the Victorian scandal titled The King of the Golden River and The Secret Trials of Effie Gray.
(13) There was also less copying, plagiarism and disruptive behaviour.
(14) Tokyo 2020 Olympics committee rejects plagiarism claims over logo Read more “We should make a structure that will emotionally move people all over the world,” the prime minister said.
(15) Plagiarism feuds Johnny Cash v Gordon Jenkins: Cash was forced to pay composer Gordon Jenkins $75,000 for using lyrics and melody from Jenkins’ 1953 track Crescent City Blues as the basis for his own 1955 song, Folsom Prison Blues Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams v Marvin Gaye: a jury awarded Marvin Gaye’s family $7.4m in 2015 after he ruled that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams had copied their father’s music to create their hit Blurred Lines George Harrison v Ronnie Mack: George Harrison was found guilty of “subconscious plagiarism” of Ronnie Mack’s He’s So Fine for his song My Sweet Lord.
(16) Japan’s hapless preparations for the 2020 Olympics have suffered another embarrassment after organisers decided to scrap the Games’ official logo amid accusations of plagiarism against designer Kenjiro Sano.
(17) But, as an educator, there are all sorts of parallels with plagiarism that I’ve dealt with in my own classroom.
(18) No one at this stage had said there were problems of authorship or plagiarism with the thesis.
(19) As recently as last week, however, Japanese officials rejected claims that Sano was guilty of plagiarism , noting that Debie’s design was not a registered trademark.
(20) Cheeky that, because Boris is both super-hack and politician, one whose media ethics got tangled with a spot of plagiarism in his youth and got him dismissed by the Murdoch-owned Times.