Thursday, September 8, 2016

Ministry of Education has proposed to prove plagiarism in dissertations only through the courts – RBC

The building of the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation

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to deny the scientific degree of incorrect borrowing in the dissertation can only be in the presence of a court decision on copyright infringement. Such proposals prepared Ministry of Education

The Ministry of Education and Science has developed amendments to the Statute of the award of degrees by which to apply for withdrawal of scientific degree due to incorrect borrowing in the thesis can be only if entered into force court decisions the fact of copyright infringement. The document was published on the portal regulation.gov.ru.

«In the event that an application for deprivation of academic degrees is supplied in connection with the violation of the requirements stipulated in paragraph 14 hereof, it is applied to such a declaration a copy of the court decision on the recognition of violations copyright a person in respect of whom application is made “, – stated in the document

Fourteen Points Regulations states that” in the thesis competitor of a scientific degree is obliged to refer to the author and (or) the source of borrowing materials or individual results. ” .

The Ministry of Education confirmed the “Vedomosti” the fact of the development of this project. “This court [for intellectual property rights] is one instance that can qualify the violation”, – quotes the edition of the Post Office. At the same time the ministry assured that the subject composition of persons entitled to apply for withdrawal of scientific degree, will not be restricted.

One of the network community founders « dissernet » Andrew Zayakin told the newspaper that the adoption of such amendments means “victory plagiarists”. He believes that any statement about the degree of deprivation « dissernet » file can not now: “The Court may apply only those whose rights have been violated, but a” victim “plagiarists do not go to court.” According to the former Deputy Minister of Education and Science Igor Fedyukin , the decision Abuse theses of the scientific community is transferred to the court. “Obviously, they want to restrict the ability to revoke degrees. Apparently, this is a political decision, moreover, dissovety in most cases are not happy when politicians have to deprive degrees “, – he explained.

« But the recognition of theses unoriginal – it is not a question of copyright. The awarding of the degrees – it is a matter of public importance, and now the certification offer essentially replace the solution of the problem between the two individuals, “-. I concluded Fedyukin

A member of one of the advisory councils of HAC Andrei Tsaturyan told the newspaper that the application to the court will be able to apply only to the rights holder. “In the case of customers’ dissernet” copyright holder who sold the text of more than one person, never will go to court – as the one who bought the text before ».

« dissernet “community publish the results of the analysis of theses many Russian politicians and public figures. In them, according to the organization, it has repeatedly been discovered multiple incorrect borrowing. One of the most resonant was the accusation against the head of the Ministry of Communications Nikolai Nikiforov. “Dissernet” claimed that in his dissertation is “incorrect scale borrowing” any claim to more than 30% thesis content. However, August 10, 2016 the Ministry of Education denied the community to deprive Minister of Candidate of Economic Sciences.

«dissernet” managed to achieve a real deprivation degree Vladimir Platonov, when he was speaker of the Moscow City Duma, State Duma deputy from the party “United Russia” Rishat Abubakirova and author of the law of oblivion State Duma deputy Alexei Kazakov. During his tenure, community accused of plagiarism of many famous politicians and officials, including the children’s ombudsman Pavel Astakhov, Duma deputy Dmitry Vyatkin, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medina and the chairman of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin.

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