Plagiarism vs Copyright

Plagiarism to me is when someone takes another person’s work(s) and uses it for their own benefit without giving the original owner credit. Even if a person rewords someone else’s work and does not give credit to the original author, it is still a form of plagiarism. Some people reword the works and cite the owner but only changes a few words are still considered plagiarism. If a person truly rewords someone else’s work and puts the information in their own words and give the owner credit is not plagiarism. The difference between plagiarism and copyright violation is basically the law is involved. Plagiarism is just a form of being dishonest. A copyright violation is a violation of law and can be an end result of being sued and fined. It is very hard to tell the difference and I thought in order for something to be copyrighted a person has to trademark whatever it is, which is not the case anymore. An example of plagiarism that is not a copyright violation is when a person is writing a paper and uses someone else’s work as their own without giving credit. An example of a copyright violation that is not plagiarism is the case of the Ohio Marching band where the song they did was well known and assumed everyone knew it and made it their own is copyrighted. Because they didn’t buy the rights to do the song is a violation and they could be sued.