28 February 2007

How Openness Prevents Plagiarism

Here's an important conclusion drawn from the rather sad Joyce Hatto saga:

It's a perfect example of what we've been saying about artists putting their work online: sharing files widely prevents plagiarism, by making it much easier to detect. One couldn't ask for a better drama to illustrate the point. Never mind Joyce Hatto — think instead of all those other pianists, whose recordings were passed off as her work: the only reason the hoax was detected was because their recordings were being shared online too!

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous7:31 pm

    The latest giant in this deal is Yahoo India!! Stealt contents from a fellow food blogger, and blames sub-contractors for the reason...no apologies...no compensation...just removal of the content after chain of mails on copyright infringement.A silent protest is on March 5th, against Yahoo India!! Join us!

    Refer here for more info:
    http://myinjimanga.blogspot.com/2007/02/bloggers-protest-event-against-yahoo.html

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