who plagiarized this?

A former student of mine recently gave me a copy of his institution's plagiarism policy. While reading through it, I got the impression it might itself be plagiarized!

I would like the opinion of this community as to whether the following is intentionally plagiarized from the University of Alberta's (Canada) web site, or whether, perhaps, the University of Alberta plagiarized its plagiarism terminology from my student's institution.



Attribution: ascribing the work or ideas to an author or artist

Citation: quoting or giving intellectual credit to another's work or ideas

Collaboration: working together with someone in a joint intellectual effort

Copyright: granting an author, composer, playwright or publisher the legal right to exclusively publish, sell, or distribute a literary or artistic work. A copyright is the legal protection of a work and provides for the originator to be paid for and control the use of his creations.

Common Knowledge: facts known by a large number of people that do not have to be cited. For example, it is well known that an untreated metal oxidizes when exposed to moisture, but explaining that it is caused by atoms losing electrons and gaining a positive charge is not common knowledge, and so this would have to be cited.

Cyber-Plagiarism: copying or downloading in part, or in their entirety, articles or research papers from the internet, or copying ideas found on the Web without giving proper attribution

Deliberate Plagiarism: the wholesale copying of someone else's paper with the intention of representing it as one's own

Intellectual Property: a creative endeavor that can be protected by a copyright, trademark or patent

Paraphrasing: often used to clarify meaning, it is a restatement of a text or passage in another form using different wording, but it still must be cited.

Paper Mill: an agency which, for a fee, provides pre-written term papers and other so-called educational tools through the internet

Plagiarism: stealing or passing off the ideas or words of another as one's own without giving proper credit; committing literary theft; presenting as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

Public Domain: refers to ideas and works that belong to everyone and are free to use without having to cite for attribution. The only material not in the public domain is that which has been copyrighted, and, therefore, protected.

Unintentional Plagiarism: carelessly paraphrasing or citing source material where improper or misleading credit is rendered

 

Legalisms and standard policies tend to be...standard. Every EULA I've not read has read about the same.