{"id":11390,"date":"2009-06-24T03:26:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T02:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/?p=11390"},"modified":"2009-06-25T03:26:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T02:26:14","slug":"un-problema-di-note-a-pie-pagina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pasteris.it\/blog\/2009\/06\/24\/un-problema-di-note-a-pie-pagina\/","title":{"rendered":"Un problema di note a pi\u00e8 pagina"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Anderson nel suo nuovo libro Free<\/em> ha avuto la sorte\u00a0 di non inserire note a pi\u00e8 pagina. Peccato che l’incidente gli abbia creato problemi grav<\/a>i gi\u00e0 prima dell’uscita del libro<\/p>\n

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\"Free\"In the course of reading Chris Anderson\u2019s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price<\/a><\/em> (Hyperion, $26.99), for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources. These instances were identified after a cursory investigation, after I checked by hand several dozen suspect passages in the whole of the 274-page book. This was not an exhaustive search, since I don\u2019t have access to an electronic version of the book. Most of the passages, but not all, come from Wikipedia. Anderson is the author of the best-selling 2006 book The Long Tail<\/a><\/em> and is the editor-in-chief of Wired<\/a><\/em> magazine. The official publication date for Free<\/em> is July 7.<\/p>\n

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Though reproducing words or original ideas from any uncredited source is widely defined as plagiarism, using text from Wikipedia presents an even more significant problem than reproducing traditional copyrighted text. Under Wikipedia\u2019s Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license<\/a>, Anderson would be required<\/a> to credit all contributors to the quoted passages, license his modifications under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, note that the original work has been modified, and provide the text of or a link to the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Anderson has not done any of these things in Free<\/em><\/p>\n

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Anderson responded personally to a request for comments about how this unattributed text came to appear in his book, providing the following remarks by e-mail:<\/p>\n

All those are my screwups after we decided not to run notes as planned, due to my inability to find a good citation format for web sources\u2026<\/p>\n

This all came about once we collapsed the notes into the copy. I had the original sources footnoted, but once we lost the footnotes at the 11th hour, I went through the document and redid all the attributions, in three groups:<\/p>\n