Archive for June, 2010
How YouTube thinks about copyright
This is an interesting video from TED.com on how YouTube thinks about copyright. It gets us to the fact that in a lot of cases, copyright is a very subjective area.
Shocking reactions to plagiarism
Came across this carefully researched piece by Karthik, where he finds out that a blogging competition organised by U.S. consulate, chennai has chosen a plagiarist for a winner! Not just that, when Karthik confronts them, they look in the other direction and say
“It seems you examined and reflected on the featured blogs – we continue to be proud of Rajat, the finalists and the rest of the 100+ contestants. We want to encourage youth to be part of the global discourse and we hope that this is the first of many blog competitions on the horizon.”
What does the US consulate stand to gain by NOT taking legal action against something illegal? Maybe their whole PR exercise will fall flat on its face and that’s what’s dissuading them.
Read the full post here.