Bedtime with Rob and Alex ep.3a
Last night's conversation started with a peculiar case of plagiarism: a romance writer's apparent lifting of entire passages from an article about the endangered black-footed ferret , originally penned for a group called Defenders of Wildlife.
The romance writer was caught by two romance novel bloggers , whose use of that sophisticated plagiarism-detection tool known as Google won them the title of Wildlife Heroes in the latest issue of the Defenders of Wildlife newsletter . Which is where we saw it.
That brought us to an interesting grey area. What about cases that aren't plagiarism - reblogging comes to mind - where no laws are broken, and arguably no ethical breach either? Are ethics and copyright all a blogger should worry about before using material?
Check out the episode to hear what we think... and drop us a line with your own ideas.
And if all of that is a little too weighty for bedtime conversation, well... we have you covered there, too .
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