Plagiarism in the Nicaraguan legal and criminal code

Abstract

Plagiarism constitutes one of the greatest violations of copyright. This conduct infringes not only moral rights, but also patrimonial rights. Its criminal regulation is of particular interest not only for the legal rights that it protects, but also for the complexities that such protection implies given the interrelation that exists with other distinctive elements of copyright such as the criterion of originality, and the recognition of limitations in the exercise of rights as is the right of appointment.

 The general objective of this article is to analyze the legal regulation of plagiarism in the Nicaraguan Penal Code. It is divided into two parts, the first aimed at systematizing the assumptions of plagiarism behavior, from establishing the theoretical treatment that exists in relation to this, and a second part, which determines the constituent elements of the crime of plagiarism and a legal regulation for this crime is proposed in the Nicaraguan legal system. For its development research methods such as analysis, synthesis, induction and deduction, theoretical-juridical and exegetical analytical were used.