Written by: Prashant Shrestha - 20117, Grade XII
Posted on: 03 November, 2019
Does it concern everyone? Perhaps yes. In the place where most of the works are copied and pasted, surely it concerns to everyone. All the Nepalese professionals including writers, professors and the students are either recklessly or unknowingly plagiarizing the works of other people. The practice of plagiarism has been a great threat to the Nepalese. The issue of academics, impact on creativity and infraction of copyrights has been the serious issues that plagiarism summons.
The trend of replicating theses, projects, final reports and other academic works has been a common thing that most of the academic personnel in Nepal do. The habit of robbing others' work without giving reference to the real author has been inherited in the Nepalese people. The actual worth of one’s own work has been worthless in the Nepalese academics. Imposing economic value for the academic work is prominent. As published in the Centre of Investigative Journalism, Nepal (CIJ), even Nepalese professors are found to be involved in plagiarizing other’s works on their own books. Nepalese academics are slowly and gradually tilting towards the dullness. The value that the academic writing possess in actual has been a valueless thing that Nepalese are neglecting. For the case of plagiarism one can be suspended from the universities, colleges and from their works too for life time. The originality of the works in Nepal has been shaded by the addiction of copying others’ work.
The creativity of the Nepalese people is declining at a great pace. The more we plagiarize the less we get chance to explore our quality of writing a piece of work. The intellectual traits are blackened by the plagiarism which always retards the tendency to publish something that is of your own. The Nepalese students who have plagiarized the theses from others are lacking in making research, extracting information from the research and creating a piece of an article of their own. There are lots of live examples of the people involved in plagiarizing who have failed in real life to expand their fluency in writing creatively. Nothingness starts to influence the brain of humans when we indulge ourselves on being parasites. The parasitic nature has been embedded in every Nepalese that has overtaken the state of their authentication on works. When there is no sign of respect for the works of the other, the issues of copyrights also gets a space along with the distortion of creativity of an individual.
The sense of Nepalese in the norms and values of copyrights is senseless. The Nepalese people haven’t been legally conscious about the penalties they can be charged for plagiarizing the work. The habit of including citation on the articles or other paperwork hasn’t been setup in the behavior of Nepalese after including references from others article. As published in “The Republica”, the TU Vice Chancellor Dr. Tirtha Khanya has been blacklisted for the plagiarism. So, if the legal actions are to be carried he can get legally punished for such a critical act of plagiarizing others and get suspended from his profession. The culture of respecting the laws of copyright is directly violated which shows how bad we Nepalese people are, on having trust issues. The people of foreign countries will have serious trust issues over Nepalese for their unawareness against the copyrights. The ban of Spotify can be a good example for the abuse of copyrights in Nepal. The act of “copy and paste” that Nepalese do without any citation of authors has a large impact on the values of copyright.
The professional, intellectual and legal consequences are brought by plagiarism which Nepalese people are facing nowadays. The people have been academically backward, intellectually faded and are unlawful towards copyright. Thus the overall personality of Nepalese has been pictured negatively by the plagiarism.
