UNfair use -- Google iPhone usage shocks search giant

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Peter Wayner [pcw () flyzone com]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 12:57 PM
To: David Farber; Dewayne Hendricks
Subject: Fwd: [IP] Google iPhone usage shocks search giant

Dave-

Let's give credit where credit is due. Maija Palmer and Paul Taylor of the Financial Times are the real author of most 
of the work, "Google iPhone usage shocks search giant", that you reprinted/repurposed/fair-used/pinched:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/667f13de-da60-11dc-9bb9-0000779fd2ac.html

By my count at least 200 words of the 318 words in the AppleInsider story are direct copies. The rest are cheap 
substitutes ("2008" for "this year".) The few changes were cursory at best and dangerously speculative at worst. (Will 
Android phones be "be announced in the second half of this year" as the Financial Times reported or will they "begin 
shipping during the second 
half<http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/11/05/notes_of_interest_on_googles_android_announcement.html> of 2008" as 
AppleInsider reported?)

If this were my student, I would have strung him up on plagiarism charges. I think you should publish a clarification.

So let me challenge the fair use advocates to explain how this kind of "fair use" is good for society?



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From: dewayne () warpspeed com<mailto:dewayne () warpspeed com> (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: February 15, 2008 3:57:05 AM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com<mailto:xyzzy () warpspeed com>>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Google iPhone usage shocks search giant

Google iPhone usage shocks search giant

By Slash Lane
Published: 03:00 PM EST
<http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/02/14/google_iphone_usage_shocks_search_giant.html>

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