A recent New York Times op-ed draws attention to the Senate Judiciary’s meeting this week to discuss websites that are serial intellectual property theives. The author laments this practice and reminds us that writers and other artists need to be recognized and rewarded for their contributions to society or they will cease to produce.

There is nothing more galling than seeing the thoughts that were rolling around in your head and then put on paper borrowed by another without attribution. It happened to me at a previous job and there was no recourse. The powers-that-be reminded me that whatever we were creating was collaborative. Which is mostly true. I get it. Perhaps if this other writer had contributed too, I wouldn’t have minded as much.

I hate to fingerpoint though and blame the advent of new media. I love

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/opinion/15turow.html?hp