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Interesting Read about the Mashup model, fair use and girl talk - NY Times

McLeod's full article in THE ATLANTIC.  Amazing, great stuff about sampling.

not actually news, but an interesting article on plagiarism from 2007. "The idea that culture can be property-intellectual property-is used to justify everything from attempts to force the Girl Scouts to pay royalties for singing songs around campfires to the infringement suit brought by the estate of Margaret Mitchell against the publishers of Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone." What do you all think of Lethem's article?

I think the moms reason to get the picture down is interesting although I'm not sure how true it can be or how the actual argument would hold up. Also, this story is just kind of funny.

So the family owns copyright of the photo and the powerful Google is not obliged to submit? I wonder if there's anything poor Jack and his mommy can do short of tracking down this girl, finding concrete evidence that she did it and slapping her with an infringement suit... I'm with you Kristi, this IS kinda funny. Breaking up is so much scarier in the internet age.