Randy Picker has an interesting piece on the plagiarism scandal surrounding the novel “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life” on the U of Chicago Law School Faculty blog. Here's a line: "The remix culture—take pieces from many sources and recombine them in a new work—has come to text."

The comments, which reflect on a George Harrison plagiarism case, are particularly amusing.

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