[cc-community] Copyrights

Andrew Rens andrewrens at gmail.com
Mon May 5 05:46:09 EDT 2008


The idea that one can "plagiarise" one's own work is a very recent conceit,
and a rather curious extension of the Romantic myth of the single "genius"
author
who creates something "original" that is, which is completely novel
and owes nothing to any predecessor. Of course anything so novel that
it indeed owed nothing to the past would be unintelligible.

Even Wordsworth would have struggled with the idea that as Romantic author
figure he could not make use of his own past work without some kind of
elaborate
citation. But then I guess that is the logical end point of liberal
individualism, if the
individual is regarded as self constituting, owing nothing to his
environment, or past
then what grants that self constituting individual any unity?
It makes sense then that a series of self constituting individuals all
bearing the same name
would have to acknowledge the work, no wait,
not the work but the property of those other self-constituting individual
selves.

Self plagiarism is a deeply incoherent idea born from the deep anxieties
generated by  Romantic author mythology.

On a practical level if you quote your previous academic work in a new
academic work then you should
provide references as a courtesy to your readers.


2008/5/4 Bobbie <rkr4cds at comcast.net>:

> Pardon me if thee has been answered in the pat; I'm relatively new here.
> Can one plagiarize one's self?
> Quoting text taken from one past published source and using it again in
> the same format?
>
> And I would assume the print credit would still be listed as if it were
> someone else's input?
>
>
> Thx in advance!
> Bobbie R
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