add a bit about drawing your own figures

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 But that is enough to get started and to make sure you understand how to use the document tools.
 Bring the PDF, in whatever state it is in, to each [[file:meeting.org][meeting]].
 
+* Draw your own figures
+Someone else has done a great job at drawing a diagram of a network with some wireless motes or a neural network or whatever.
+Why on earth do we want you to do your own version?
+The first reason is that /it is a violation of copyright/ to copy other's diagrams and put them in your own document.
+It may seem like it helps that you add a citation but unless you received authorisation from the publisher, this is always /illegal/.
+Unlike downloading "Forest Gump" though, the illegal activity is happening /in public/ with /your name on it/.
+So---not just illegal---also stupid.
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+The second reason that you should create your own version is that your work is being marked by a professor who understands about copyright.
+They can't give you marks for cutting and pasting an image from someone else's work.
+More likely they will take some marks off because you wasted their time working out that you just cut and pasted an image from somewhere.
+Citing the source is an improvement over using an image without citation but, unless you obtain permission, does not make your reuse of someone else's image legal.
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+What about the "everyone is doing it" defence?
+Perhaps lots of uninformed undergraduate students do it.
+But in the publishing world, copyright is a big deal.
+In fact, copyright is the basis for open source licenses.
+On this basis, publishing houses, such as the IEEE, have a web-based way of [[https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/reqperm.html][requesting permission]] for reproducing an image.
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+If you want to better understand plagiarism, I can highly recommend the article by [[https://medium.com/@paintedfrog/craig-wright-plagiarized-significant-portions-of-his-phd-thesis-and-tried-to-hide-it-80cd8f01459][Paintedfrog]], which describes in detail a PhD thesis containing plagiarism.
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 * Develop a pipeline
 A common problem when developing research is that results need to be revised as problems with code are resolved.
 For example, it may be that initially results were generated in grams but later this was changed to kilograms (kilogram is the correct SI unit).