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

[Daniel Mietchen]

My post is at
http://www.science3point0.com/evomri/2011/03/03/just-put-the-thesis-online-and-let-everyone-have-a-look-for-themselves/
.
Your quote, by the way, was not contained in the Guardian link you provided.

Daniel

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Daniel Mietchen
<daniel.mietchen at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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