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Plagiarism and copyright infringement are, although different, somewhat related. Plagiarism is mostly associated with copying someone's written work and presenting it as own creation, whereby it may also be applied to music. In music, for instance, plagiarism is when someone rips off someone else's melody and changes it insignificantly to mask up the violation. It may constitute copyright infringement, but sometimes the dividing line is blurred or overlapping and not distinctive. Plagiarism is nowadays very much perpetrated on the Internet, where many people copy other people's content and paste it onto their own web sites, or pass them as their own work in form of articles. Plagiarism happens very much on community boards, where less crafty wordsmiths "borrow" other people's wisdom and try to look good in the community of their choice. Such plagiarism happens because the person is needy of validation, or perhaps feels under peer pressure to produce materials worthy of noticing. Copyright infringement is serious crime and is punishable by law. Some copyright violations have even felony status, while plagiarism, because it is often without financial gain, passes unpunished, or the person responsible for it is caught and chastised by the community. Nevertheless, every year during the