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It is against the law to just copy information from other places. It violates the copyright of the original authors. Even if material does not have a copyright notice it is STILL copyrighted unless the author expressly gives up the copyright. There are exceptions for certain material published by some government agencies but that is too complex to go into here. Just because something is on the Internet does not mean it is public domain and can be copied. This is still a violation of the law and unethical.
If you copied this info from the web, you should just provide links and a description of what material can be found there.
If you rewrite it substantially, but the material you provided is not from your own experience or common knowledge (Like: Coturnix eggs hatch in sixteen to seventeen days.) then you should still tell where you found the information.
It is hard for people to know how trustworthy information is, otherwise.
It is against the law to just copy information from other places. It violates the copyright of the original authors. Even if material does not have a copyright notice it is STILL copyrighted unless the author expressly gives up the copyright. There are exceptions for certain material published by some government agencies but that is too complex to go into here. Just because something is on the Internet does not mean it is public domain and can be copied. This is still a violation of the law and unethical.
If you copied this info from the web, you should just provide links and a description of what material can be found there.
If you rewrite it substantially, but the material you provided is not from your own experience or common knowledge (Like: Coturnix eggs hatch in sixteen to seventeen days.) then you should still tell where you found the information.
It is hard for people to know how trustworthy information is, otherwise.
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