Even though the idea of plagiarism is very much present in the field of copyrights, given that numerous authors commit copyrights violations against other authors, the law does not include the term “plagiarism”. An original work is the work created by the creators themselves, without imitation of works of other authors. In order for a work to be covered by copyright protection, it does not need complete originality, but it is necessary that the work itself is not an act of plagiarism of already existing works, and that it contains the authors’ imprint that differs them from other works. According to copyrights law, plagiarism is not reflected in the adoption of facts from other authors’ works, but in the adoption of the thing that makes the work itself an intellectual creation. In comparison to plagiarism, in scientific and expert papers, etymological difference is also present, and the majority of members of the legal profession uses the following terms instead of the term “plagiarism”: intellectual theft, inadmissible appropriation of someone else’s intellectual property, adoption of someone else’s intellectual property, appropriation, scientific theft, appropriation of someone else’s intellectual property, consolidation, attributing someone else’s authorship to oneself, etc. The law stipulates suspension of copyrights in various cases, among which is also the case of the “rights of quotation”. When evaluating plagiarism in science, in comparison to copyrights, not only identity of two works is taken into account, that is, between original segments of works, but a work might be seen as plagiarism even because of paraphrasing, appropriation of someone else’s ideas without mentioning the original author.

Keywords : Scientific Papers, Plagiarism, References, Quotations.