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Fascinating recent plagiarism case from the New Yorker. Spy novel written by author who was "undercover" in the sense that he was secretly writing everything with passages lifted from other novels. 

An interesting article about an author who was recently caught up in a plagiarism scandal that dated back over (nearly) his whole writing career. The article deals with intentionality and references/interviews Jonathan Lethem who we discussed in class (and I think Sandy bookmarked).

This article speaks to the plagiarism issues that came up in "Uncreative Writing".

This is another plagiarism-themed article that complicates notions of ownership and creativity. This article recaps how Apple and Samsung have been locked in a bitter struggle over tablet designs.

Is taking from Wikipedia plagiarism? This French author cut and paste freely. This is interesting since it's such a constant argument with students in 101 and 102.

Highly influential article about the essentially plagiaristic nature of all culture production, an article that itself is composed entirely of "borrowed texts." An excellent short and direct argument for uncreative writing.

Here is the other website that I look back to frequently. I don't want to spam the message board with websites that are largely just "inspiration" sites, but if any of you are interested in others, I have a bunch and am always looking to trade.

This is a website that offers limited print, affordable art. I like to look at what is being done other places to get ideas for my own work. This website and one other one (which I will post next ... which you'll see first) are two websites that I like to look at a lot for stylistic ideas of how to do poster designs, typographic designs, website designs, and book covers.

Last post I'll provide about Rowan, but The Fix was referenced a great deal in the New Yorker article.

Another article, this one from Salon, that talks about Quentin Rowan (the subject of the New Yorker article).

Red Hat, the world's largest, most successful open source software company and one I'd like to work for in the very near future, submitted this blog post last month about SOPA and PIPA. It explains how such bills could devastate online collaboration, innovation, and the sharing of ideas and technology.

Going back to an older discussion, I thought some might be interested in this article. It puts forward ideas for how copyright issues could be addressed. The website in full might also be interesting to some.