The auto plagiarism, a new term in the field of the copyright, rise some juridical problems concerning the sense and the sanction. The sense is totally different from the basic one: plagiarism (presenting the other’s work as being personal contribution). The use by an author of some preexisting works is limited only by the existence of the copyright for another person, not for the author, because of a contract.The problems appears when is invoked a new “copyright” and there is no originality. May be incidents the provisions of the ethical codes of the universities, if is the case of an author which is also professor.
