1. Was giving a copy of the textbook fair use according to the textbook?
Giving a copy of the book as a PDF document is considered not a fair use according to the guidelines determining fair use in this textbook. But since the book wasn’t available it became ethical issue. And by doing that you damaged the writer profit and affected the potential market for the book. But if you didn’t gave us the book we wouldn’t bought it.
2. Are ethics and morals the same? Give examples.
No; Morals are internal where ethics are external. According to the book, ethics is the study of the principles of conduct that apply to an individual or a group. Morality is the rightness or wrongness of personal behavior as defined by the institutions that are involved in the socialization process of an individual. Morals are foundations over which ethics is built. Ethics is subject to morals because the elements of morality, which are rights, justice, utility and care, have to be factored when resolving ethical dilemmas. Ethics applies to professional practices. For example, stealing is a moral issue, but when done in the context of professional writing, it is considered plagiarism, which is an ethical issue in that context.
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Why is plagiarism unethical?
Plagiarism is the act of using someone else’s words or ideas without giving credit to the original author, regardless of whether it was intended or not. It includes borrowing or stealing graphics, videos, audio media, written passages or entire documents and then using them without attribution. Plagiarism is unethical because failure to attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor is a violation of copyright law, one of the laws that shape our ethical