The conclave of Internet revisionists

*I told you we'd be hearing more about this David Shields guy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/books/21mash.html

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Mr. Shields's pasted-together book and defense of appropriation underscore the contentious issues of copyright, intellectual property and plagiarism that have become prominent in a world in which the Internet makes copying and recycling as simple as pressing a couple of buttons. In fact, the dynamics of the Web, as the artist and computer scientist Jaron Lanier observes in...