Arianna, George, and the public domain
We weren’t going to keep harping on this Clooney/Huffington thing, but then we came across this in today’s LAT item about the incident:
Though [Huffington] sought Clooney’s approval, “I didn’t need permission because his statements are in the public domain.” Nor did she think she needed to credit the source of the statements.
Wow! I didn’t realize you can string together quotes from the public domain by anyone and post it on your blog as if the person wrote it expressly for you.
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