[Updated July 22, 2013. Jurisprudence explaining plagiarism and jurisprudence on ideas being not protected by copyright were included. Stand on economic rights infringement was changed. The constitutional basis for Senate member punishment was also included.]
Disclaimer: I am not a member of the bar nor a law student. I have no malicious intent in writing this commentary. I do not wish to attribute a crime or otherwise to any person. I, for one, am against cyberbullying. This exercise is purely academic that we might learn from a specific example.
Last August 13, 2012, Senator Vicente Sotto III delivered his privilege speech, Turno en Contra (Part 1 of 4), against the then Reproductive Health Bill. The speech based on the Record of the Senate can be read here.
Disclaimer: I am not a member of the bar nor a law student. I have no malicious intent in writing this commentary. I do not wish to attribute a crime or otherwise to any person. I, for one, am against cyberbullying. This exercise is purely academic that we might learn from a specific example.
Last August 13, 2012, Senator Vicente Sotto III delivered his privilege speech, Turno en Contra (Part 1 of 4), against the then Reproductive Health Bill. The speech based on the Record of the Senate can be read here.
He was accused of plagiarizing several paragraphs discussing
health risks by using oral contraceptives from the blog, The Healthy Home
Economist, of a Sarah. The particular blog post, How “The Pill” Can Harm Your Future Child’s
Health, (which was said to be the source) can be read here.
Plagiarism can be defined as: the appropriation of another's
literary or artistic manner of expression.
