More on one of our favorite topics from Christopher Howse in The Telegraph (found at Expectingrain):
So Bob Dylan stood out from his contemporaries as a song-writer because he stole more boldly and with more imagination. He had hardly heard someone sing Scarborough Fair when he cannibalised it for Girl from the North Country, apparently mistaking the word fair for an adjective. As a privateer of song, no wonder Captain Kidd the pirate was his hero. They both spotted other people’s treasure and brought it home as their own.
That’s the faculty teenagers lack when they copy over chunks of the internet into their homework. The crime is lack of discrimination.
via Plagiarism? I’ve heard that one before – Telegraph.
More on this topic here.
Imaginary Boundaries 
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Thanks. It’s on my list!