Stealing from Dan Brown
If mega-author Dan Brown can’t protect his hardcopy books from the digital pirates — what hope is there for the rest of us in this new dawning of stealing books for profit?
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Crookery at Stevens Institute of Technology
There are rumors stinking up New Jersey that Stevens Institute of Technology has a crook for a president.
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Chris Rock's Bad Hair Day
Comedian Chris Rock is having a Bad Hair Day. His new movie, “Good Hair” is twisting in the wind under the accusation that he stole the idea for his movie from another movie.
Catching Copyright Infringement
It never gets old catching Copyright infringers and yesterday was no exception. There is a sheer disgust and yet also a shared, Panopticonic, delight in catching another website red-handed copying and pasting and re-publishing your writing without your permission.
What Good is Plagium?
Plagium is a new web service that tracks “Plagiarisms” using the Yahoo! Search API. I tried Plagium this morning and I was disappointed in its lack of helpful returns and I was disappointed because I always love catching content thieves.
The International Orphan Myth
Most of us believe there are basketsful of orphaned babies the world over just waiting for an international adoption. The truth is more sullied and brutal than that ideal. The international children being adopted already have parents and they are being sold to the highest bidder.
A Bush in the Head is Worse than Two in the Grave
Just when we think we’ve buried both atrocious Bush presidencies forever, the old man rises up from the grave to proclaim the ascent of the second son as the rightful heir to a doomed legacy. Bush 41 — not yet embarrassed enough by the deadly antics of Bush 43 — wants a Bush 45: Jeb Bush.
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Spying on Somali Pirates
There’s no place to hide on the water when you have eyes in the sky — and that includes the Somali pirates taking over oil tankers.
The Integrity of the Provenance of Ideas: Archimedes and His Burning Mirror
In this fine illustration of Archimedes and his Burning Mirror by Giulio Parigi (1599), we have a perfect and clear example of how plagiarism operates — and no one escapes this theft of the provenance of ideas able-bodied and unscorched: The sun is the original source, the mirror is the plagiarizer and the burning ship is the aftereffect of the illicit deed after a burning exposure.
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The Invented Line Between Stealing and Inspiration
The false charges against Barack Obama from the Clinton campaign claiming plagiarism is laughable on the surface and ridiculous in the depths.
The bane of plagiarism, however, is a serious matter and it deserves more discovery and I will more formally address that topic in a future article.
Plagiarism — taking someone else’s ideas and claiming them as your own — is an issue to some in the theatre. I argue the distinction is meaningless because in a live performance the difference between stealing and inspiration is ever-changing.
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