Copying
computer user when they select and copy an area of text or content.
In artIn visual art, copying the works of the masters is a standard way that students learn to paint and sculpt. Often, artists will use the term after to credit the original artist in the title of the copy (regardless of how similar the two works appear) such as in scan[3] a model and can produce it in a variety of materials and in any desired size.[4] Another way of copying three-dimensional works is by lost-wax casting and other forms of molding and casting .
In literaturePrior to the invention of the printing press, the only way to obtain a copy of a book was to copy it out by hand (see scrivener). Throughout the Middle Ages, monks copied entire texts as a way of disseminating and preserving literary, philosophical and religious texts. In office workOffices need more than one copy of a document in a number of situations. They usually need a copy of outgoing correspondence for their records. Sometimes they want to circulate copies of documents they create to several interested parties. Until the late 18th century, if an office wanted to keep a copy of an outgoing letter, a clerk had to write out the copy by hand. This technology continued to be prevalent through most of the 19th century. For these purposes, offices employed copy clerks, also known as copyists, scribes, and scriveners. A few alternatives to hand copying were invented between the mid-17th century and the late 18th century, but none had a significant impact on offices. In 1780 James Watt & Co. produced beginning in that year. Letter copying presses were used by the early 1780s by people like Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson . In 1785, Jefferson was using both stationary and portable presses made by James Watt & Co.
During the 19th century, a host of competing technologies were introduced to meet office copying needs.[5] The technologies that were most commonly used in 1895 are identified in an 1895 description of the New York Business College's course program: "All important letters or documents are copied in a letter-book or carbon copies [are] made, and instruction is also given in the use of the mimeograph and other labor-saving office devices."[6]
Biological copyingOrganically, copying of genetic information can take place using DNA replication, which is able to copy and replicate the data with a high degree of accuracy, but mistakes are common, and occur in the form of mutations. However, in the process of DNA repair , many of the mistakes are corrected by checking the copied data against the original data.
Digital copyingThe same principle is applied digitally, in devices such as in Digital Copy is a sample of interpretation of digital copying.
Copying rightsThe concept of copying has a particular significance in certain areas of copyright law .
A related concept is plagiarism, copying others' work and passing it off as one's own. Many schools will take plagiarism to academic suspension, or even the failure of a course. See also
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