On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Edward Potter <edwardpot...@gmail.com>wrote:
> slight topic drift, but what the heck ... on the topic of Plagiarism . . . > > >>> > > plagiarism? i thought it was called "Mixing and Sampling" now. :-) > > leave it to the 17 year olds to re/define things, for the better of course! > :-) > > >>> > Author, 17, Says It’s ‘Mixing,’ Not PlagiarismAlthough Ms. Hegemann has > apologized<http://www.buchmarkt.de/content/41393-axolotl-roadkill-helene-hegemann-und-ullstein-verlegerin-dr-siv-bublitz-antworten-auf-plagiatsvorwurf.htm?hilite=ullstein-plagiat>for > not being more open about her sources, she has also defended > herself <http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100209-25143.html> as the > representative of a different generation, one that freely mixes and matches > from the whirring flood of information across new and old media, to create > something new. “There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just > authenticity,” said Ms. Hegemann in a statement released by her publisher > after the scandal broke. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/world/europe/12germany.html > > The irony is that these kids seem to think they are doing something new. The idea of authorship as a sort of sacred concept is pretty much a 19th century one. Prior to that it was like, no big deal to take a chunk of someone else's work and drop it into your own. -- Support real health care reform: http://phimg.org/ -- David Mintz http://davidmintz.org/
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