[LINK] In Praise of Copying

[Roger Clarke]

At 12:04 +1100 20/10/10, Kim Holburn wrote:
>http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Copying+Right+Ripping+someone+else+work+always+indefensible/3680028/story.html
>>  Copying a Right: Ripping off someone else's work isn't always
>>  indefensible
...
>>  Common as Air is one of several recent books arguing that the
>>  present age demands a debate about the morals of copying cultural
>>  goods. Another was 2009's Free: The Future of a Radical Price, by
>>  Wired magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, who argued that ...

Boy, some ideas take a while to catch on.

This material was hardly new when I was writing it back in 2004-05:
http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/Plag0602.html#CArg


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