"To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use
- another person’s idea, opinion, or theory;
- any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings—any pieces of information—that are not common knowledge;
- quotations of another person’s actual spoken or written words; or
- paraphrase of another person’s spoken or written words."
Taken from Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
Artwork. Using artwork in contest, in poetry and on your page without permission or due credit is illegal. You are stealing art. It is not acceptable to say you don't know where the art is from - you are not only making yourself to be abusing someone else's work but you are bringing down Allpoetry with you in the art community.
How do you like your works to be plagiarized or stolen. Start the trend - do not steal art in any form.
Including and not limited to::-
- Photography
- Paintings
- Poetry
- Prose
In closing; don't abuse privileges to be able to post art with words - it's close to becoming extinct.
Adding your comment:
Thanks a lot for the column...makes a lot of sense when ppl put it this way 
