With The Wind takeoff, The Wind Done Gone . I hesitate to join the fray without having read the book, because there is a chance it does actually commit plagiarism. The upside to cases like this, however, is that they test old laws governing publishing which may have outlived their usefulness. Book-banning is a proud American legal system tradition in the face of artists breaking new barriers.
Repression is the vector of revolution.
These paradigms new and old came up time and again in the Monday panel on journalism and the Internet. The audience was inventing new ones as the dialogue proceeded. If history is any example, they will consist of concepts we have not even thought of yet. Musical CEOs Steve Ballmer may well be the top CEO in the nation. But I do not believe for a minute that Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest individual.