Is copy pasting of pictures/graphs/tables plagiarism

Rizal, Philippines  |  February 23, 2014

I am rather disturbed by a statement of a colleague at this institution who said that publishing graphs, tables, pictures of other people is not allowed under the rules of plagiarism.

So I searched this at net.  I got some answers from Yahoo answers.

Yahoo answers on copy pasting at Slideshare presentation




And the answers conform to what I know.  Yes you can provided you cite the credits or that there is attribution.  If the statement were true, then researchers or publication citing primary data cant show the data. and the presentation of the paper would be weak.  Here are the answers:

Other Answers (3)

• Answerer #1 answered 4 years ago

  If you cite the source yes, you can use them.
  It is considered plagiarism, because it is not your own work.

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• Answerer #2 answered 4 years ago

  Only if you cite the original source of what you used. If you use the materials without a citation and try to pass it off as your own, it is plagiarism.

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• Answerer #3 answered 4 years ago

  You can use it. But make sure you site the website and also if you can, give credit to the photographer.