[LINK] In Praise of Copying
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Wed Oct 20 12:13:42 AEDT 2010
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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