The Free-Appropriation Writer – NYTimes.com

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The Free-Appropriation Writer

Copying passages from another author used to be an unforgivable sin. But remix culture is coming to literature.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/weekinreview/28kennedy.html?ref=weekinreview

After a blogger and fellow novelist announced that Ms. Hegemann had blended sizeable chunks of his own writing into hers, Ms. Hegemann, instead of following the plagiarism-gotcha script of contrition and retraction so familiar in recent years, announced that appropriating the passages from that book and other sources was her plan all along.