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...Lawrence Lessig, a prominent intellectual property scholar at Stanford Law School, also said that plagiarism and copyright infringement are different concepts...
...Lawrence Lessig, a prominent intellectual property scholar at Stanford Law School, also said that plagiarism and copyright infringement are different concepts...
...sentence from another work and pass it off as my own without citing it or quoting it, that might not be copyright infringement because I wouldn’t necessarily need permission to use it,” Lessig said. “But since I’m asserting that I am, in fact, the author of that sentence, that would be plagiarism...
...David Byrne, the Beastie Boys, and Chuck D. and Fine Arts Militia are encouraging the very behavior the industry is trying to stop: sampling, copying, remixing and circulating their songs online for free. Under a novel licensing scheme called Creative Commons (CC), developed by Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, artists can publish their work under middle-ground protection as "some rights reserved" instead of "all rights reserved." That way, others can listen to or remix the work--usually for noncommercial purposes. "Technology gives us opportunity, and I wanted to make sure the law wasn't stopping people from creating," says...
...help produce. Yet there is little doubt that the free-software movement for which Stallman planted the seed has achieved a permanence through Torvalds' pragmatic work. And there is no doubt that the open, collaborative model that produced GNU/Linux has changed the business of software development forever. --BY LAWRENCE LESSIG, Stanford Law School professor and author of Free Culture