[Air-l] Turnitin for Television?

[Sarita Yardi]

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




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