On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 01:36:23PM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > How /would/ plagiarism work in a world > without copyright? You could quote something, but not attribute it, > while still disclaiming 'creation' yourself? You could derive a work > that shares substantial portions with the parent work, and claim that > this new work was indeed "your work", and no reference to the original?
That would be *lying* which would still be unethical if not illegal. My only point is that copyright is not preventing plagarism now and situation *may* not necessarily improve or deteriorate much w/o copyright. > Artists do this all the time. When they do, we say that they "cover" a > song. It's not stealing, because the copyright system arranges for > payment to be made to the appropriate (legally speaking) copyright > holders. So? Honesty and protecting one's reputation would still encourage artists to attribute cover songs correctly w/o copyright. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
