I received a mail from pharmainfo.net the last week. It was in response to a mail I'd sent them because I'd had a problem including an image in a blog entry. They told me that it was because I was infringing on a copyright held by the owners of that image.
I felt terrible about that because I know copyright infringement is a very serious crime. I'd read a lot about it especially in the recent court cases ranging from Pfizer suing Ranbaxy for stealing a drug patent to Rajesh Roshan stealing music(Krazzy 4) to J.K.Rowling suing a publisher who tried to publish an unauthorised encyclopaedia to her work.
I quote from Wikipedia:
“Copyright infringement is a violation of the rights of the copyright holder, when material is used without the copyright holder's consent. On the other hand, plagiarism is concerned with the unearned increment to the plagiarizing author's reputation that is achieved through false claims of authorship.”