I find this question extremely interesting because the issue of who owns texts in this age of multimodality will only become a more complicated one. Every website seems to contain links to other websites or republished texts from another website. No text/page on the internet stands on its own; rather it has connections with hundreds, if not thousands, more pages there.
When I worked at the tv station, I would often link various websites to the news station's website is someone could gather more information by using that said website. Thus, people were directed to our own website before being able to link up to the other websites. While this issue does not directly speak of plagiarism, it does offer an example of that interconnectedness. I never asked those websites if I could link their pages to our own; rather, it was a given that they would not mind the added traffic to their own website by my having linked theirs to my own.
I will be interested in what comes out in this age of mulimodality. Will there eventually be some sort of law or other thing set so that we know who owns these texts? Or will it be, as the Thursday articles suggest, more along the lines of the Eastern view of ownership/authorship (although I, too, am not trying to set up a set dichotomy of east and west here)?
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