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PLAGIARISM

Program 07-03-04-A

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Malcolm Gladwell knows how to succeed in show business without really trying -- write a story for The New Yorker about a psychiatrist who studies serial killers. Then a playwright will take some of the words from your article and use them in a Broadway play. Next time on To the Best of Our Knowledge, Gladwell will share his story of plagiarism. Also, D.J. Spooky on how he takes the images, sounds and technologies that bombard us daily and transforms them into his own art.

SEGMENT 1:

Author Jonathan Lethem talks to Jim Fleming about his "Harper's" Magazine essay, "The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism." As the subtitle indicates, Jonathan Lethem appropriated the words of many authors to cover the subject of plagiarism, although he provides full attribution of his sources at the end of the essay. Also, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid) talks to Anne Strainchamps about his book, "Rhythm Science," and how the art of music sampling relates to plagiarism. We also hear a DJ Spooky/TTBOOK interview mashup.

SEGMENT 2:

The Honorable Richard A. Posner is a Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh District. He's also a prolific author. His most recent book is called "The Little Book of Plagiarism." Posner talked to Steve Paulson about the history and ethics of plagiarism.

SEGMENT 3:

Journalist Malcolm Gladwell talks to Steve Paulson about how the words from one of his stories for "The New Yorker" ended up on Broadway and how this made him change his attitude about plagiarism.

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Books:

Richard A. Posner, The Little Book of Plagiarism (Pantheon)
Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Rhythm Science

Websites:

• -- Jonathan Lethem
  http://www.jonathanlethem.com/
  
• -- Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid)
  http://www.djspooky.com/
  http://www.rhythmscience.com/
  http://www.rebirthofanation.com/
  
• -- Richard A. Posner
  http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375424755
  
• -- Malcolm Gladwell
  http://www.gladwell.com/
• COMEDY SEGMENT:
  --"A Disney Minute"/The Vestibules
  http://www.thevestibules.com/
  
• MAGAZINE ARTICLES:
  -- “Something Borrowed” by Malcolm Gladwell from the November 22nd, 2004 issue of “The New Yorker”
  http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_11_25_a_borrowed.html
  http://www.gladwell.com/
• -- “The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism” by Jonathan Lethem
  http://www.harpers.org/
  http://www.jonathanlethem.com/

Music:

• -- Franz Liszt’s “Mazeppa”/Joyce Hatto/Laszlo Simon
  http://www.pristineclassical.com/HattoHoax.html
• -- Music used in DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) mix:
• -- “Oval vs Yoshihiro Hanno April Remix mixed w/James Joyce Anna Livia Plurabelle (Finnegans Wake)”/ from the CD, “Rhythm Science”/Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid (Mediawork/The MIT Press)
  The CD accompanies the book, “Rhythm Science” (Mediawork Pamphlet Series/The MIT Press)
• -- “Dj Wally Zeta Reticula mixed w/Gertrude Stein If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso”
  from the CD, “Rhythm Science”/Paul D. Miller aka
  DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid (Mediawork/The MIT Press)
  The CD accompanies the book, “Rhythm Science” (Mediawork
  Pamphlet Series/The MIT Press)
  http://www.rhythmscience.com/
• -- Excerpt #1 from “Rebirth of a Nation”
  http://www.rebirthofanation.com/
  http://www.djspooky.com/art.html
• -- Music used in DJ Spooky/TTBOOK mashup:
• -- “Brother’s Gonna Work It Out (2005)”
  from the CD, “DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid & Dave
  Lombardo Present Drums of Death” (Thirsty Ear Recordings)
  http://tinyurl.com/bewgh
  http://www.thirstyear.com
• -- Excerpt #2 from “Rebirth of a Nation”
  http://www.rebirthofanation.com/
  http://www.djspooky.com/art.html
• -- Excerpt #3 from “Rebirth of a Nation”
  http://www.rebirthofanation.com/
  http://www.djspooky.com/art.html
• -- “Matik Indigo”
  from the CD, “Rhythm Science”/Paul D. Miller aka
  DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid (Mediawork/The MIT Press)
  The CD accompanies the book, “Rhythm Science” (Mediawork
  Pamphlet Series/The MIT Press)
  http://www.rhythmscience.com/

Distribution dates: week of 01/20/2008 - hour 2 week of 03/04/2007 - hour 1

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