[WikiEN-l] NY Times: Wired Editor Apologizes for Copying from Wikipedia in New Book

[Charles Matthews]

Joseph Reagle wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 June 2009, Charles Matthews wrote:
>   
>> Somewhat cynical: they thought they could just cite, looked at the GFDL 
>> and thought "damn, doesn't work that way", and then just went ahead. 
>>     
>
> Particularly ironic given the title and perhaps subject of the book.
>   
My comment was written late at night. But I don't really understand why 
the author thought (a) permalinks are uncool, but (b) paraphrasing this 
WP stuff and passing it off as my own and copyright is clearly cool. And 
issues this as an apology.

Charles