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I find this funny because Martin Luther King turned out to be a plagiarist.
by vertr 14y ago
I find this funny because Martin Luther King turned out to be a plagiarist.
- throwaway125 14y agoI was curious about this and a search came up with this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._authorship_issues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._authors... in case anyone else is interested too.
- sjwright 14y agoErm, it's called remixing.
- derleth 14y agoRemixers give credit. This is actually an interesting part of the culture around copyright: People seem to think copyright law is actually about plagiarism, so as long as they explicitly say they don't own something they're in the clear. It doesn't work like that, but it's how people seem to want the law to work. What's more, plagiarism is reliably punished using whatever social means the community has. As we see here, in fact: Mentioning it is pretty much the only recourse left, so that's what we do.