I know! I know! I wish I could immerse myself more deeply into the debate, because it is interesting (for a certain value of "interesting"), but I can't. I'm too young to die of apoplexy.
This whole debacle made me think of fandom, too, and of how enraged people get at the slightest breach of copyright - and as annoying as that is sometimes (-> wank), it is also an important means of self-governance and it serves as a learning process, too.
I can sort of understand the publisher if they defend their product. That's what they do. And if they didn't pick up on the plagiarism in time, they resort to damage control. But third parties? How can journalists and other "experts" seriously claim there's nothing wrong with what she did?
We should buy out all copies of Strobo and make it an even bigger bestseller than that other book (that shall not be named).
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Date: 2010-02-10 05:55 pm (UTC)This whole debacle made me think of fandom, too, and of how enraged people get at the slightest breach of copyright - and as annoying as that is sometimes (-> wank), it is also an important means of self-governance and it serves as a learning process, too.
I can sort of understand the publisher if they defend their product. That's what they do. And if they didn't pick up on the plagiarism in time, they resort to damage control. But third parties? How can journalists and other "experts" seriously claim there's nothing wrong with what she did?
We should buy out all copies of Strobo and make it an even bigger bestseller than that other book (that shall not be named).