Head of the Prime Minister's Control Corps Valentin Mircea says the Government must guard over and firmly as well as promptly protect ownership rights.
"As far as plagiarisms are concerned, it is about copyrights, ownership rights protected by the Romanian Constitution. Allowing someone who has lawlessly taken ownership of someone else's creation to get away scot-free only because in the meantime he gives up on the asset thus taken over as a result of social opprobrium is not all right. That is tantamount to abetting intellectual property theft, which violates Article 44 in the Constitution and moral health in the Romanian society. The Government is compelled to guard over and firmly as well as promptly protect ownership rights," the official wrote in a Facebook post on Thursday.
According to him, the university awarding doctoral degrees affected by plagiarism is not the best suited to take the necessary measures.
"At the same time, the university awarding doctoral degrees affected by plagiarism is not the best suited to decide on and take the necessary measures, given that it has already failed when supervising the correctitude of the doctoral thesis, which would make it a judge of its own case," reads the post.
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