[pp.int.general] Plagiarism is bad because it infringes copyright????

[Daniel Mietchen]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:
>    While she stopped short of calling for his resignation, she said:
>    "Intellectual theft is not a small thing. The protection of intellectual
>    property is a higher good."
>
> She claims that each of a dozen unrelated laws is a "higher good" that
> ustifies trampling most people's freedom and interests.
>
> Is someone from the German pirate party reading this?  Would it like
> to use this to attack her and the concept of "intellectual property"?
I am working on a blog post that shall emphasize that this kind of
plagiarism is bad because it violates social norms in academia, not
primarily because it (also) violates copyright. Further pointers in
this direction welcome.

Daniel

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