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"The social web era has introduced new challenges to attribution and citation. In an information system where content discovery is the currency of cool, not crediting your sources is a new form of piracy, plagiarism perpetrated against fellow publishers, driven perhaps by the misguided notion that there somehow isn't "enough" - enough audience, enough interest, enough status - for everyone."

"What can we do to change things? For starters, we need to overhaul the way we teach copyright and other intellectual property issues in our schools. Library media specialists also need to quit being copyright cops. And it's time to stop thinking that if we don't know for sure if something's 100-percent legal, we shouldn't do it-that mindset just doesn't work. Below are four changes our profession must seriously consider if we're going to meet the needs of our students and teachers."