When is a quote altered enough that it is someone else’s or at least no longer the original owner’s? In the post below I used a quote that is clearly derived from Patrick Overton’s “Faith”. I prefer it over the “correct” quote above. Of course, I attributed it to Patrick because they are essentially the same but if I just attributed it without noting that it is a variation I would be misquoting him.
Rethinking Copyright vs Strangualtion of Creativity
Larry Lessig did a talk at TED in 2007 entitled How creativity is being strangled by the law. This talk feeds right into the other post I am making today regarding Michael Wesch's great talk about how the web is taking creativity, copyright and many other things off into an unimagined direction. Larry Lessig is also just a great presenter. …