Pleagerism - Best Writing Practices?

[rodrix]

Hi everyone!
I am writing a software that contains interactive lessons.

However, it also contains written text lessons which I am currently outsourcing.

I am concerned about following correct biblography/non-pleagerism practices.

I tell my writers to write original text and do not permit them to cite nor copy any text from anywhere. However, I suggest them to read a selection of articles that I find intresting, and to summarize them all and add their own ideas to create a new single-page original text-lesson.

I am confused about if I should add the selection of articles as part of the bibliography of my lessons or not. From one point of view, the text is completely new so I wouldn't have (as it's the effort of the writers I am paying), and from the other, the text has been written based on the writer's ideas as well as the selected articles.

I am very worried about this as the penalties for pleagrism are quite high and I want to follow the correct practices before I begin my outsourcing writing tasks.

What would be more correct?
If I add the articles as part of the bibliography, do I have to pay the authors for intelectual property rights?!
Should I give the writers I am hiring any special type of additional warning?

Thank you very much!!!
Best regards,
Rod

[meaghannf]

If you are selling a product that uses other people's work, you need to get their permission, whether or not you write a bibliography. That means, that even if you cite all of your sources, if you use their work to make money for yourself, that can be considered plagiarism (and please check your spelling - there's no 'e' in plagiarism).

You'll need to contact the writers whose works you are using.

[BusinessAdviser]

More than plagiarism, you need to be concerned with copyright issues. You are likely not the copyright owner unless you have a signed contract explicitly stating that the outsourced work is assigned by the writers to you. If not, you're violating their copyrights and can be liable.