Dear Reuters: Fire Your Interns
by Cosmo
24 October 2006
Check out this Reuters news capsule (you might want to pause the accompanying video before it gets past the ad) about burlesque star Dita von Teese. Now check have a look at the corresponding Wikipedia article about Ms. von Teese. If you’re inattentive or pressed for time, these two DeepQuote links cut straight to the chase.
I’m not entirely sure Reuters plagiarism republication of that Wikipedia article fits entirely under “fair use” in the GPL. It’s surprising, frankly, that this problem doesn’t occur more in the opposite direction, with ill-informed netizens copying wholesale onto Wikipedia from existing pages; at any rate, people have been fired for ripping off The Free Encyclopedia before.
