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Matt Mason Named Year's Best Pirate

December 18, 2008

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BusinessWeek's Best and Worst of Everything 2008 has named Pirate's Dilemma author Matt Mason the best pirate of 2008, writing: Journalist Matt Mason's totemic book explores the issues faced by struggling musicians and chief executive officers alike. In a culture of pervasive sampling and remixing, how are notions of ownership and copyright evolving? Pirates, Mason argues persuasively, break old rules to establish new innovations.

BusinessWeek's Best and Worst of Everything 2008 has named Pirate's Dilemma author Matt Mason the best pirate of 2008, writing:
Journalist Matt Mason's totemic book explores the issues faced by struggling musicians and chief executive officers alike. In a culture of pervasive sampling and remixing, how are notions of ownership and copyright evolving? Pirates, Mason argues persuasively, break old rules to establish new innovations.
The worst Pirate of the year? Waaiiit for it... Real Pirates! Oh, BusinessWeek.

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