Recently working for the French version of the popular Internet publication “Slate”, journalists managed to find that more than three paragraphs written by Michel Welbek, a new novel called “map and territory”, are a copy-paste from the free online encyclopedia, the creation of sites of a similar orientation continues now All over the world. In this case, the writer used articles from the French version of “Wikipedia” regarding the policy of Frederick NIU, about the city of Bova and about indoor flies.
In response to the statement made by journalists, the publication “FlamMarion”, which actually issues a “map and territory”, refuted the charges against it in plagiarism. Representatives of FlamMarion also noted that Michel Welbek quite often uses all kinds of news notes in his works, including many materials taken from official sites of various departments and companies, but the writer always carefully processes them. This is done primarily in order to completely exclude the impact of personal representations and addictions from the description of the subject.
As for the fragments used in the “map and territory” from the encyclopedia of the Internet encyclopedia, then only very minor processing were performed during their use.
Recall that all articles of Wikipedia are under the protection of Creative Commons licenses, which involve their reproduction not only for private, but also for commercial purposes, however, when using them, a link to a source is required, which, in this case, does not have Welbek. Be that as it may, the lawyers surveyed by Slate that the writer is most likely not threatening the writer, because according to the law, the lawsuit can be filed only by a specific author, and any article taken from Wikipedia is the fruit of both collective and anonymous creativity (approximately how to create a site with joint efforts by employees of the same studio).
In conclusion, we note that the new novel “Map and Territory” written by Michelk Welbek will be published on September 8 in France. This novel will represent a satire on the world of celebrities of France, among which there will also be a scandalously famous Alcoholic writer — Michelle Welbek.
