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RE: Wired News: Noted War Blogger Cops to Copying
by Elonka at 1:16 pm EDT, Apr 7, 2003

Decius wrote:
] ] Kelley's insightful window on the details of the war
] ] brought him increasing readership (118,000 page views on
] ] a recent day) and acclaim, including interviews in the
] ] The New York Times and on NBC's Nightly News, Newsweek
] ] Online and National Public Radio.
] ]
] ] The only problem: Much of his material was plagiarized --
] ] lifted word-for-word from a paid news service put out by
] ] Austin, Texas, commercial intelligence company Stratfor.
]
] He should attribute everything. That is the key.
] Unfortunately, he is still posting unattributed entries.

It would probably be worth clarifying this point for Memestreams, too, especially since we routinely quote other people's webpages word for word. Where's the dividing line between "fair use" quoting of someone else's page, and "plagiarizing" it?

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