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[David Mintz]

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Edward Potter <edwardpotter at gmail.com>wrote:

> slight topic drift, but what the heck ... on the topic of Plagiarism . . .
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> >>>
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> plagiarism?  i thought it was called "Mixing and Sampling" now. :-)
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> leave it to the 17 year olds to re/define things, for the better of course!
> :-)
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> Author, 17, Says It’s ‘Mixing,’ Not PlagiarismAlthough Ms. Hegemann has
> apologized<http://www.buchmarkt.de/content/41393-axolotl-roadkill-helene-hegemann-und-ullstein-verlegerin-dr-siv-bublitz-antworten-auf-plagiatsvorwurf.htm?hilite=ullstein-plagiat>for not being more open about her sources, she has also defended
> herself <http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100209-25143.html> as the
> representative of a different generation, one that freely mixes and matches
> from the whirring flood of information across new and old media, to create
> something new. “There’s no such thing as originality anyway, just
> authenticity,” said Ms. Hegemann in a statement released by her publisher
> after the scandal broke.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/world/europe/12germany.html
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>
The irony is that these kids seem to think they are doing something new. The
idea of authorship as a sort of sacred concept is pretty much a 19th century
one. Prior to that it was like, no big deal to take a chunk of someone
else's work and drop it into your own.

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