Plagiarism, sock-puppeting and the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Gothamist writes:
Posting online comments under multiple aliases is apparently against the law, at least in the case of Raphael Haim Golb, 49, who is suspected of using 50 different e-mail addresses and monikers — some of the names belonging to academic rivals — to bolster his arguments about the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. To back up his belief that the relics were actually produced in Jerusalem libraries, Golb allegedly used multiple online "sock puppets," or fake identities, to make it seem like he had supporters.
Golb may have used fake ID's to create fake academic supporters (as did Ward Churchill) AND may have used misappropriated ID's to discredit his rivals, by having them "admit" to things under the misappropriated ID.
In the lemming-world of patent law academics, there's no need to generate fake supporters, because almost everybody is in the same bed. Just look at how readily, and without thought, the 97% number of Quillen and Webster was accepted.
See also
http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2009/04/dewitt-goes-after-fish-piece-in-nyt-on.html
Posting online comments under multiple aliases is apparently against the law, at least in the case of Raphael Haim Golb, 49, who is suspected of using 50 different e-mail addresses and monikers — some of the names belonging to academic rivals — to bolster his arguments about the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls. To back up his belief that the relics were actually produced in Jerusalem libraries, Golb allegedly used multiple online "sock puppets," or fake identities, to make it seem like he had supporters.
Golb may have used fake ID's to create fake academic supporters (as did Ward Churchill) AND may have used misappropriated ID's to discredit his rivals, by having them "admit" to things under the misappropriated ID.
In the lemming-world of patent law academics, there's no need to generate fake supporters, because almost everybody is in the same bed. Just look at how readily, and without thought, the 97% number of Quillen and Webster was accepted.
See also
http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2009/04/dewitt-goes-after-fish-piece-in-nyt-on.html
posted by Lawrence B. Ebert at 9:07 PM
1 Comments:
Several defense motions have been filed in this case, which shed a considerable amount of light on the underlying controversy as well as on the First Amendment issues involved. Upon reading the legal briefs, one wonders whether this may turn out to be yet another malicious prosecution. See
http://scrollmotions.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/dead-sea-scrolls-controversy-motion1.pdf
and
http://scrollmotions.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/raphael-golb-first-amendment-motion.pdf
and
http://scrollmotions.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/email-and-access-motion.pdf
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