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November 15, 2004

Malcolm Gladwell on Plagiarism and Copyright

Malcolm Gladwell has this must-read piece in this week’s New Yorker about the interaction between creativity, social copying norms, and copyright laws.

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  1. Copyright, Copynorms, and Plagiarism
    Malcolm Gladwell has an interesting piece in the Nov. 22 New Yorker, reflecting on the discovery that Frozen, a Broadway play, included language lifted from an earlier Gladwell article. Equally interesting is the reaction of Dorothy Lewis, a New York p…

    Trackback by Freedom to Tinker — November 16, 2004 @ 10:38 am

  2. Was Frozen Permissible Borrowing?
    An article posted yesterday on JoeGratz.net really has me thinking. I posted a comment on Copyfutures tonight noting briefly the ethical rationale for the Bridgeport decision, and then I came across this article: Something Borrowed, written by Malcolm …

    Trackback by Copyfutures — November 17, 2004 @ 12:26 am

  3. Was Frozen Permissible Borrowing?
    An article posted yesterday on JoeGratz.net really has me thinking. I posted a comment on Copyfutures tonight noting briefly the ethical rationale for the Bridgeport decision, and then I came across this article: Something Borrowed, written by Malcolm …

    Trackback by Copyfutures — November 17, 2004 @ 12:51 am

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