CBS's story points to the challenge in recognizing plagiarism in multimedia environments, along the lines of the turnitin discussion in terms of written texts that we had a few weeks back. Given the popularity of the cut and paste, remix culture surrounding MySpace, GarageBand, or YouTube and the fact that these types of interactive media are being pulled into formal education curricula, both in K12 and higher education environments, it seems there is a huge need and challenge for researchers and educators to define the rules around collaboration/borrowing/sharing/stealing/reusing/remixing. There are likely different rules for audio and video than for written text, but even if they were the same, the tools for recognizing plagiarism would be very different (and are largely nonexistent right now?). "LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "CBS Evening News" anchor Katie Couric may vividly recall her first library card, but the network says she was unaware that her online video essay about the virtues of libraries was largely a work of plagiarism. CBS News said this week the April 4 installment of "Katie Couric's Notebook" consisted mostly of passages lifted verbatim from a Wall Street Journal column by Jeffrey Zaslow that was published in March. The producer responsible for Couric's piece was fired on Monday night, hours after the Journal contacted CBS News to complain, network spokeswoman Sandy Genelius said on Tuesday." ... "Sometimes the text is written by the producer," she added. "That's the way television generally works. It's a very collaborative medium." http://www.reuters.com/article/televisionNews/idUSN1124528320070411 -- Human-Centered Computing College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology www.cc.gatech.edu/~yardi http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gacomputes/Members/yardi/imagineering-the-future