Copyright protection is a fundamental category within the theory of civil and civil procedural law. Copyright protection refers to the measures provided by law for the recognition of rights, the termination of infringement attempts, and the application of legal liability to offenders. The protection of personal non-property and property rights of copyright holders is carried out in accordance with the procedures established by administrative, civil, and criminal legislation. Article 19 of the Law "On Copyright and Related Rights" defines the infringements that constitute grounds for copyright protection.
By submitting a manuscript to the journal Computer Technologies of Printing, authors agree that, if accepted for publication, the article may be placed in electronic databases with mandatory attribution and full retention of copyright by the authors. All sources of external information must be cited in full within the body of the work in the form of reference lists (including the authors' own previously published works). The author(s) of the manuscript are obliged to properly format borrowings as quotations or specific references to the primary source. Any form of plagiarism is unacceptable; it is regarded by the Editorial Board as unethical behavior and renders further cooperation impossible.
Plagiarism is the appropriation of authorship of someone else's work, discovery, invention, or rationalization proposal, as well as the use of someone else's work in one's own papers without referencing the author. Currently, there is no single, exhaustive, and universally accepted definition of plagiarism. For instance, the experts at Turnitin, one of the largest English-language resources for plagiarism detection, define the concept as follows:
- Stealing an idea or words of another person and passing them off as one's own;
- Using the results of another person's work without specifying the source from which they were taken;
- Stealing an artistic, scientific, or other work, in whole or in part, and passing it off as one's own;
- Presenting an existing idea or product as new and original.
With the emergence of the Internet, plagiarism has become a serious problem. Once information enters the digital space, it becomes widely accessible, making compliance with copyright requirements increasingly difficult and, at times, impossible. Identifying the original author has also become more complex. The rapid development of the Internet, alongside increased computer literacy, facilitates the infiltration of plagiarism into various spheres of human activity. Today, plagiarism is a acute issue in education, industry, and particularly within the scientific community. It misleads consumers of scientific products, harms the original author, and provides undeserved benefits to the plagiarist. The Editorial Board of Computer Technologies of Printing condemns the following forms of plagiarism:
- Literal Copying: Exact duplication of an existing published object of copyright or patent law without proper formatting of the borrowed sections. This form of plagiarism is the easiest to prove, as it involves complete character-for-character or structural duplication of the borrowed material.
- Idea-based Plagiarism: Repeating the conceptual basis of a work—the plot or core idea—which constitutes its primary value. An idea, plot, or principle cannot always be captured in a pure form, as they require material means for presentation (symbols, letters, numbers, notes, graphic elements). This form of plagiarism is the most difficult and controversial to prove. • Interpretive Plagiarism: Publishing an author's work where the content contains part or all of the material of another author(s) in a linguistic, lexical, or technological interpretation. Such plagiarism alters the symbolic scheme (e.g., the specific arrangement of text), allowing the plagiarist to present it as an original work. This can often be detected through technical or software tools unless the object has been fundamentally transformed.
- Erroneous Plagiarism: This includes errors in citations and quotation definitions; referencing non-existent sources of information; failure to provide sources for specific facts (unless they are from personal research); and errors in presenting the structure and content of information sources.
The Editorial Board categorically condemns any manifestation of plagiarism in manuscripts as a violation of copyright and scientific ethics. If more than 25% of borrowed text is detected in an article without proper references to the primary source and the use of quotation marks, the article will be classified as containing plagiarism (see "Submission Requirements"). In this case, the manuscript will no longer be considered for publication, and the author will be notified (their scientific supervisor will also be informed, if applicable).
Authors found to have committed plagiarism will be permanently barred from publishing in Computer Technologies of Printing, and the fact of plagiarism will be brought to the attention of the management of their scientific institutions or organizations.