FACTUAL
My Words
Friday 29 February 2008 15:45-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Chris Ledgard looks at the global war between the defenders of intellectual property and those determined to share it.
Plagiarism has become a nightmare for teachers, publishers and journalists. Anyone from a lowly GCSE student to a high-profile writer can easily copy a chunk of text from a website, and it is equally easy to catch someone doing so. But there are those who defend the free exchange of other people's words as a basic liberty.
Followed by News.
