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Plagiarism: Maybe It's Not So Bad

Friday, December 27, 2013

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Poet Kenneth Goldsmith. (Kenneth Goldsmith)

Artists often draw inspiration from other sources. Musicians sample songs. Painters recreate existing masterpieces. Kenneth Goldsmith believes writers should catch-up with other mediums and embrace plagiarism in their work. Brooke talks with Goldsmith, MoMA’s new Poet Laureate, about how he plagiarizes in his own poetry and asks if appropriation is something best left in the art world.
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