Re:Chris Anderson's Free Contains Apparent Plagiarism
by gojomo on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @02:01AM
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No. Only if he says, "I license my work under copyleft/ShareAlike", is it under ShareAlike.
Anderson's response is quoted at the end of the article.
Roughly he says: "Whoops, we copied it by mistake, it should have been quoted or rewritten. We'll correct online and in future printings."
It doesn't in any way change his copyright/license. (He may very well offer the book for free, given his schtick, but there's no automatic compulsion to. And if you copied his work without permission, you couldn't argue "but he did the same thing" or "he accidentally gave me permission".)
Anderson's response is quoted at the end of the article.
Roughly he says: "Whoops, we copied it by mistake, it should have been quoted or rewritten. We'll correct online and in future printings."
It doesn't in any way change his copyright/license. (He may very well offer the book for free, given his schtick, but there's no automatic compulsion to. And if you copied his work without permission, you couldn't argue "but he did the same thing" or "he accidentally gave me permission".)