פורום ארץ הצבי

Inventiveness and intellectual property and their historical predicament
http://www.michael-sharon.com/intprop.pdf

The point was not so much the plagiarism itself, but acts of atrocity that accompany heavy plagiarism (In the worst of the ''carry and bury'' tradition).

I consider and would purport to advance the recognition by international law of some forms of heavy plagiarism as a crime against humanity - and against the progress of science and the development of enlightened modes of human spirit in general .

In fact, I don't know how to put it in a proper and moderate way. But the heart of the matter is that, being a highly innovative researcher and developer, a large scale violation of my intellectual property rights has been involved in my own country, Israel, since 1973, in the worst of the ''carry and bury'' tradition (including, eh.. pathological lies and the other unpleasant things that keep company for ruthless plagiarism - which seems to far exceed what people have in mind when they refer to civilized society and a few ethical principles crucial for social living without being robbed of your products on and on.

Being a journalist now, I could write the following reportage, which manifests what free press can do to expose to bright light evasive social evils that are jealously and brutally kept hidden.

Corruption and high-volume plagiarism in the Israeli academy in social sciences - a report

http://www.nfc.co.il/archive/003-D-5874-00.html?tag=...

What matters is not the herald of things, the sheer saying of things, and attention to things, but the fact that those things were done. Yet, to point out the unacceptable is a shimmering hope for tomorrow worthy of Man in His Image (M. Sharon) -