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Title: No such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity Post by Webbie on Feb 19th, 2010, 7:31am A teenage literary sensation who lifted large parts of her debut hit novel from the Web, without giving credit, says she's justified because "there's no such thing as originality". For good measure, Helene Hegemann said the plagiarism was justified, because copyright holders they had it coming. 17-year old Hegemann's Axolotl Roadkill, a bildungsroman, was published to critical and commercial acclaim last month. But large chunks of the book were lifted, without credit, from a novel published by a pseudonymous blogger called Airen, whose novel Strobo is also a hedonistic coming of age novel. More here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/19/not_invented_anywhere/

Title: Re: No such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity Post by ArthurS on Feb 22nd, 2010, 3:14pm And this is why we have lawyers. I say "let loose the dogs of war and cry HAVOC!"* *William Shakespeare

Title: Re: No such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity Post by Adrienne_Ray on Feb 22nd, 2010, 3:17pm TEENAGE literary sensation? I hate her already.

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