How copyright infringement can get complicated

Tue Jan 10 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

This is fascinating ("Digging The Madness of Crowds" by nat at O'Reilly Radar):

Earlier today, O'Reilly found itself at the center of a controversy on the popular news site, digg.com. Steve Mallett, O'Reilly Network editor and blogger, was very publicly accused, via a Digg story, of stealing Digg's CSS pages. The story was voted up rapidly and made the homepage, acquiring thousands of diggs (thumbs-up) from the Digg community along the way. There was only one problem: Steve didn't steal Digg's CSS pages.

I hope this correction is submitted to Digg and dug.

UPDATE [2006-01-10T11:29:51]: And it has been dug.