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The significance of Joe Biden's plagiarism?

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

A piece in Inside Higher Ed by Jonathan Beecher Field ends with the text:

Biden?s dishonesty matters to me in two ways. It suggests something of Biden?s character, indeed, in a realm more relevant to doing his job than was John Edwards?s philandering to his. The other reason is selfish. Now that Barack Obama has deemed a plagiarist worthy of the vice-presidency, it becomes more difficult for me to make the case in the classroom that plagiarism matters. More broadly speaking, Obama?s choice has made it harder for me, and for my colleagues across the United States, to defend the principles that form the foundation of scholarship.

see also

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2008/08/googling-plagiarism-and-joe-biden.html

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2008/08/went-to-garden-party-joe-biden-hides-in.html

IPBiz is waiting for somewhat to discuss some of the interplay (favoritism) between Biden and Amtrak.

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The 271blog noted that patent reform came up at the DNC:

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., told a crowd in Denver on Tuesday that it is crucial for Congress to pass legislation to update the U.S. patent system next year -- even if the measure is a scaled back version of the broad, controversial language that was in play during the 110th Congress. [HR 1908/S 1145]

Of course, with Barack Obama picking a known plagiarist as his VEEPmate, one knows exactly where the Democrats stand on intellectual property. As they say at the Harvard Business Review: plagiarize with pride!

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At Chronicle:

Of ?The other irony is that when faced with these situations the students either plead ignorant or plead that the negative impact on their lives is not worth the sentence. I wonder where they learn that attitude?? , one might look to Joe Biden?s defense after being caught copying several pages of a law review into a paper he did as a 1L at Syracuse Law. Unlike Allison, Joe didn?t walk the plank, and he might soon be our first plagiarist Vice-President. Or Glen Poshard, who copied someone else?s summary in his own summary at page 54 of his Ph.D. thesis, and is an ?inadvertent? plagiarist university president. And then there is Laurence Tribe.

Full post as published by IPBiz on August 27, 2008 (boomark / email).