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...would have found it more honest - and none the worse, creatively - if Ms. Hegemann would have asked Airen for permission to so excessively use the stories," says Debora Weber-Wulff, a media professor and plagiarism expert at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. Weber-Wulff believes that Hegemann's generation shares the same laissez-faire attitude toward copying and pasting that comes from growing up in the Internet age. "Digital information is infinitely copyable," Weber-Wulff says. But she adds that questions remain over just how much of a person's creative work can be copied and how that...
...Theisohn wonders what the future will hold for Hegemann. Plagiarism accusations aside, he calls her book a "decent accomplishment for a 17-year-old." Weber-Wulff, too, sees reasons to be optimistic: "I suppose we should be happy that someone is actually using that ancient communication method, writing...
...lost on automotive executives, investment bankers or even European Union bureaucrats: Volkswagen is not just any German company. Wiedeking lost his bid for control of VW when he lost the support of Ferdinand Piech, the VW supervisory board chairman who initially backed a Porsche takeover. Piech realized that Christian Wulff, the premier of the state of Lower Saxony, which holds a blocking stake in the carmaker, would not support a takeover. All Wulff had to do was use the so-called Volkswagen Law, or "Lex VW" as it is known, which guarantees that Lower Saxony cannot be out voted...
...European Union has tried to topple the VW law, which it calls protectionist, but in 2008 Germany passed a revised VW law that granted Lower Saxony a veto right in the event of a takeover attempt. Wiedeking underestimated Wulff and the political nature of the battle. That made failure almost inevitable. Still, the money will help soothe his current woes...
...needed to take control of a company like VW. The company is based in Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony and the state holds 20% of its shares, but through a law written just for VW, the so-called "Lex VW," the state cannot be outvoted. Lower Saxony's governor, Christian Wulff, a Christian Democrat who sits on the VW supervisory board, opposed a takeover of the company by Porsche. So it was no surprise that Wulff welcomed the merger announcement...