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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 4748902" data-attributes="member: 5724">No, there's a difference between copyright infringement and identity theft.What I described (someone placing their name on someone else's academic work and then distributing that work - even for free) isn't identity theft, it's plagiarism. They're not pretending to be someone else, they're claiming they have the right to repeat that text verbatim as if they were the copyright owner just like someone who put's up one of my products for distribution claims to have my copyright to distribute my products.They're both copyright issues. One would have to rely upon copyright to prove that one was the actual creator of the work, just like I have to rely upon copyright to prove that I have the exclusive right of world-wide distribution.The copyright laws protecting creators from plagiarism (having someone else claim your work as theirs) are the same laws that allow creators to determine the distribution of their works, not just the proper identification of the creator of the work.In modern times, the only legal reason one can claim credit for an idea and prove ownership of an idea is copyright. Along with ownership and credit comes exclusive distribution.joe b.</blockquote>