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COPYING BY MOONLIGHTING Adrian Slater

Legal Adviser’s Office. COPYING BY MOONLIGHTING Adrian Slater. These slides and related presentation do not constitute legal advice. Specific legal advice should be taken before acting on any topics covered. Legal Adviser’s Office. Warming you up for plagiarism!. Legal Adviser’s Office.

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COPYING BY MOONLIGHTING Adrian Slater

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  1. Legal Adviser’s Office COPYING BY MOONLIGHTINGAdrian Slater These slides and related presentation do not constitute legal advice. Specific legal advice should be taken before acting on any topics covered.

  2. Legal Adviser’s Office • Warming you up for plagiarism!

  3. Legal Adviser’s Office • “Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.” (Banksy, Wall and Piece)

  4. Legal Adviser’s Office • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY Words and their usage matters!

  5. Legal Adviser’s Office • Allegedly • Shakespeare, T S Eliott, George Harrison, Martin Luther King • British Government “intelligence” building to the Iraq war • A Lot of politicians [Victor Ponter, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Pal Schmitt, Ioan Mang] • Every lawyer I have ever met… Plagiarists -true villains or heroes ?

  6. Legal Adviser’s Office • Classified ad in June 2012 “Student News” • Struggling with your physics PhD thesis? I am Professor Mike in the Physics Department. Can I give you a helping hand? Years of experience in supervising and writing theses. I can be your editor. Help you with your ideas and your written work. Coaching for your viva. Lots of my own material. Work on turnitin together. Work together on your thesis. No credit needed. Let me be your quiet help. Payment terms flexible e.g. £30 per hour or payment per word. Please reply to mike@uni.ac.uk. Moonlighters – villains or helping heroes?

  7. Legal Adviser’s Office • Do you stay outside or go into the tent? Share with Mike!

  8. Legal Adviser’s Office • Academic’ s employment terms and conditions • Implied term of trust and confidence in the UK • ‘One eye shut, one eye open’ – custom and practice • “Private jobs” and consultancy • Annual “declarations of interests” • Lack of written policies The “Wild West”

  9. Legal Adviser’s Office • What are you going to call it? (see later) • Are both staff and students bound? • What activity does it cover? (e.g ‘beyond editing’, pastoral support, teaching) • Covers both work within and work outside of your University? • Only where paid (or other benefits in kind!)? Some issues for any policy

  10. Legal Adviser’s Office • Only permit where moonlighter relevant knowledge and experience – who decides that? • How much time would you allow someone to moonlight? • How many students would you allow? • Only permit students outside of the moonlighters, outside of existing supervision/programme/school/university? • Student’s academic team must be informed? • Regulate payment to ensure it is ‘fair’?

  11. Legal Adviser’s Office • Not allow access to University resources e.g. turnitin? • University to take a percentage of the moonlighter’s fee? • Student’s existing supervisor must agree? • Student and moonlighter must sign ‘something’? • What does that ‘something’ say and is the University to be a party allowing for University action? • How do you monitor/police?

  12. Legal Adviser’s Office • Big prizes! • Some lame examples • ‘bringing the Domestos of sunlight to moonlighting’ • ‘helping not doing – a policy on privately assisting students’ • ‘cowboys/cowgirls – this is the way to do it!’ The Name Game

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