Marty is having problems coming up with an idea for a speech.He knows his fraternity keeps files of old tests,papers,and speeches and decides to look through these for an idea.He finds a great speech about bats,their value to ecology,and their habitat.He likes this speech so much that he decides to use it largely intact but goes to the Internet to update the sources.Which of the following statements best describes this situation?

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Marty's actions constitute plagiarism, which is the act of presenting someone else's work as one's own. Even if the speech was stored in a file at his fraternity, it is still the intellectual property of the person who originally created it. Updating the sources does not justify copying the speech largely intact without proper attribution, as it is still considered stealing another person's ideas and work.

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