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

[Jay Emerson]

I think we should threaten to sue every world leader that has written
anything without citing the whole of western civilizilization because the
words they used were not their own but developed by creators that haven't
seen a dime for their work :-P

Jay Emerson
Administrative Officer
Pirate Party of New York
On Mar 2, 2011 12:22 PM, "Richard Stallman" <rms at gnu.org> wrote:
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/01/german-defence-minister-resigns-plagiarism
> shows something repulsive:
>
> On Monday, German minister of education and research, Annette Schavan,
> welcomed the withdrawal of Guttenberg's PhD, telling reporters she did
> not "consider the incident to be a trifle".
>
> 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.
>
> Even if we forget about most of those laws, and imagine that she's
> only talking about copyright when she says "intellectual property",
> her statement is still twisted, because she is distorting the concept
> of plagiarism. She wants people to think that plagiarism is bad
> because of copyright law. Does she think it is ok to lie about text
> in the public domain? If Guttenberg had bought a license for the
> text, would that make his lie ok?
>
> She ought to resign for this.
>
> Is someone from the German pirate party reading this? Would it like
> to use this to attack her and the concept of "intellectual property"?
>
>
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> Dr Richard Stallman
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