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If You’re Going to Plagiarize Your Commencement Speech, Don’t Lift It From YouTube

Peter Kafka in Media on May 26, 2010 at 12:11 pm PT

Axiom that everyone ought to know by now: The Web makes it really easy to steal other people’s work. But the Web also makes it easy to get caught. Just ask Columbia University’s Class of 2010.

Welcome to the Jungle! Guns N’ Roses Accused of Stealing Songs for Pirated Album.

Peter Kafka in Media on October 6, 2009 at 9:12 am PT

Musicians accuse other musicians of stealing their work all the time and I have no idea if this case has more or less merit than any other one. But I couldn’t resist relaying this story: Guns N’ Roses, which made a point of stringing up people who pirated the band’s last album, is now being accused of pirating songs on its last album.