Online issues

Meant for sharing. Trending now over the internet and part of the headlines on the news is the controversial issue of a certain senator plagiarizing a blog, which includes speech during his “turno on en contra” for a bill that is to be passed or denied by the Senate. I find it ironic how a public figure that has knowledge about the law itself is allegedly accused of copying it from a certain blog. Taking a few lines or just grasping the idea would have been okay, but copying a lot of lines without mentioning the original author, that would cause a problem. In my opinion, he has the capacity to formulate his own speech and incorporating his own ideas, but whether it was his fault or his secretary, yet they opted to copy. Their stand was that the blog was meant to be shared in the first place, but in the defense of the author of the blog, she deserved to be recognized and somehow be credited for her intellectual property. Think of this analogy: another landscaping company copying the style of Glencoe landscaping and the former got more credit. It is unfair for the latter’s part, much like the situation of the above stated.