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Throughout his administration, the President has left almost all intellectual property issues up to Vice President Joe Biden

Classic. Leave IP issues to the plagiarist.



Plagarist?


Biden was knocked out of contention for the Democratic Nomination in 1988 because he copied a speech delivered by British Politician a year earlier (and even went so far as to fudge his own familly history a bit to make the copied lines work)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_presidential_campaign...


That hardly seems like plagiarism, more paraphrasing and even then it isn't like he took the entire speech - just a basic idea and two sentences (which he apparently cited everywhere except once).


Via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden#Early_life_and_educat...

"He went on to receive his Juris Doctor from Syracuse University's College of Law in 1968,[19] where by his own description he found it to be "the biggest bore in the world" and pulled many all-nighters to get by.[15][20] During his first year there, he was accused of having plagiarized 5 of 15 pages of a law review article. Biden said it was inadvertent due to his not knowing the proper rules of citation, and he was permitted to retake the course after receiving a grade of F, which was subsequently dropped from his record.[20] He was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1969.[19]"


Biden plagiarized a speech in an earlier campaign: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_presidential_campaign....


I'm sorry, are you trying to say that this administration is doing too little to protect intellectual property? If you're saying the IP issues are being left to someone who doesn't respect IP, that is the only conclusion I can draw.


I believe he's accusing them of hypocrisy.




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