Whenever I speak about Free Culture at schools, I’m asked “what about plagiarism?” Copying and plagiarism are two quite different things.

 

As Mimi demonstrates with the giant Copy Machine, copying a work means copying its attribution too:

 

just copy the credit along with the work

 

When people copy songs and movies, they don’t change the authors’ names. Plagiarism is something else: it’s lying.

Read the rest of Credit is Due (The Attribution Song) by Nina Paley at QuestionCopyright.org.