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The Little Book of Plagiarism, by Richard A. Posner
A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown, popular historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, first novelist Kaavya Viswanathan: all have rightly or wrongly been accused of plagiarism–theft of intellectual property–provoking widespread media punditry. But what exactly is plagiarism? How has the meaning of this notoriously ambiguous term changed over time as a consequence of historical and cultural transformations? Is the practice on the rise, or just more easily detectable by technological advances? How does the current market for expressive goods inform our own understanding of plagiarism? Is there really such a thing as “cryptomnesia,” the unconscious, unintentional appropriation of another’s work? What are the mysterious motives and curious excuses of plagiarists? What forms of punishment and absolution does this “sin” elicit? What is the good in certain types of plagiarism?
@torunn saidJust finished Quiet, The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain. A good read, but very heavy on scientific detail. I suppose that's to be expected from an HLS grad.
Sebastian Barry: Days Without End (2016)
@Great-Big-Stees saidYou should call for one of the great detectives, the man with the little grey cells. 🙂
Well it’s a reread but, my last investment report…something looks a bit suspicious.😲