The Asssociated Press quotes Poynter’s Keith Woods on the plagiarism suit against the Hartford Courant:
“Keith Woods, dean of faculty at the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit journalism think tank in St. Petersburg, Fla., said the cut-and-paste world of the Internet has mistakenly given some people a loose sense of who owns what.
” ‘Without trying to judge the Courant’s alleged actions or take sides in the dispute between the papers,’ he said, ‘the age-old rules of journalism always apply, no matter how the news is presented and by whom.’
” ‘There’s no measure of justification you can offer to people for doing it, no matter how tough the times get. You can’t steal,’ he said.”
