Plagiarizing Speechwriter Pushed For Stronger Copyright Laws
from the funny-how-that-works dept
Why is it so often that we find those who strongly push for certain types of draconian laws are later found to be guilty of violating those laws? The latest is a mini-scandal in Canada, involving a plagiarized speech. Now, I've pointed out before that I'm actually all for plagiarizing politicians. However, as Rob Hyndman points out, it turns out that the guy who copied the speech, one Owen Lippert, wrote a book on intellectual property, where he pushed for much stronger intellectual property rules to be included in trade agreements. Of course, it's worth pointing out that plagiarism and copyright are related, but not the same -- but you would think that someone who believes so strongly in more stringent intellectual property laws would be a lot more careful about potentially doing anything that shows a disregard for intellectual property.
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Plagiarizing Speechwriter Pushed for Stronger...
I thought this was a piece on Sen. Biden's legislative acheivements.
SMILE.
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was that before or after you read this article?
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Plagiarizing Speechwriter Pushed For Stronger Copyright Laws
Things is only the Lawyers win in these cases.
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What a politician exhibits double standards, whatever next...
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