What do you do when someone steals your work and uses it?

2022-08-03

It might be a post you worked hard to create, an idea at work, a design or a paper you wrote for class. Seeing someone else use and get credit for your idea can be a gut punch. How do you respond? Atif Agha, Karen Loomis and Jeff Glauser and I had a conversation about it and our ideas were pretty different. I have to admit, my hackles come up when someone steals my work. Others were more willing to look at it as a learning opportunity that they should have done something different or even as f...

It might be a post you worked hard to create, an idea at work, a design or a paper you wrote for class. Seeing someone else use and get credit for your idea can be a gut punch.

How do you respond?

Atif Agha, Karen Loomis and Jeff Glauser and I had a conversation about it and our ideas were pretty different.

I have to admit, my hackles come up when someone steals my work. Others were more willing to look at it as a learning opportunity that they should have done something different or even as flattery.

Do you think online posts have different rules around what is plagiarism?

Connect with the panelists:
Karen Loomis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kloomis/
Atif Agha: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atifagha/
Jeff Glauser: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffglauser/
Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/

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