有關“花兒”樂隊《嘻唰唰》的版權問題被媒體炒得火熱，而今年“3.15”維權行動的一個亮點是公眾對學術界及藝術創(chuàng)作抄襲、剽竊等造假行為的關注。近年來，學術腐敗、文藝抄襲等現(xiàn)象屢被曝光，如何還學術及文藝一片凈土已成為一個亟待解決的社會問題。

請看《中國日報》的相關報道：As China marks the World Consumer Rights Day, the spotlight would inevitably be on poor products and shoddy service. But attention is also being focused on the rights of a special group of consumers: subscribers or readers of academic and literal journals. Plagiarism have become rampant in China, and are eroding people's trust in academia and intellectual circles.

報道中的plagiarism專指學術或藝術創(chuàng)作方面的造假行為，用英文可解釋為：using ideas, plots, text and other intellectual property developed by someone else while claiming it is your original work（在自己所謂的原創(chuàng)作品中，偷用別人的觀點和設計方案甚或抄襲文章段落）。Plagiarism由動詞plagiarize衍生而來，舉個例子，Half the ideas in his writing were plagiarized from an article I wrote last year （他這篇文章沿用的思想，有一半都是從我去年寫的一篇文章里剽竊來的）。