Re: Knock-off legalities?

SewStorm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Plagiarism is if you take someone else's actual words, in the exact same
> configuration, and use them as your own, without any kind of credit to the
> original author. 

No, plagiarism applies to ideas, not just words.  Even Webster's 
dictionary defines it as "to steal and pass off the ideas or words of 
another as ones own" and "to present as new and original an idea or 
product derived from an existing source".  So, knocking off an existing 
design and calling it your own original design could be considered 
plagiarism.