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

[Justus Römeth]

I only took a glimpse at your article, but you do know that the thesis 
is online and that there is a wiki dedicated to finding how much of the 
thesis is actually plagiarized, right?

-J

On 03.03.11 06:14, Daniel Mietchen wrote:
> 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
>>
>> --
>> http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Benutzer:Daniel_Mietchen/English
>>
>
>