Copyright
When you've made something new: copyright will apply. Copyright gives you a certain assurance that it's your work, so one can just copy it. Only you can decide on the distribution of your work, and it will protect you against the abuse of your work. Keep in mind, because of copyright people stay in creative and innovative work.

For people using Docmerit, this means that you're only allowed to upload study material if you're the copyright holder of those documents. When uploading a document, you hold all the rights of that particular document. People uploading their study material always stay copyright holder and do not ever - by using Docmerit - give away their rights. They can adjust, delete, share for free, or choose to sell their documents. Note: by selling their documents, this will not mean they also sell their copyright. Thus, the buyer is only allowed to use the documents for personal use and Docmeritr is not responsible for the documents shared via the platform.

Plagiarism
As soon as you copy something from someone else, without referring to the original document, it can be seen as plagiarism. Plagiarism is also known as fraud and it is strictly illegal.

If you upload documents to Docmerit which are based on copyrighted work, be sure that you state this in your document. Referencing or quoting isn't a problem, just describe where you got it from and whom the author(s) were. Moreover, summarizing a book or a scientific article wouldn't cause any problems, as long as the summary is your 'own work'. This means: the work has to be written in your own words and you've quoted the right way.