Dylan accused of lifting passages of Nobel lecture

NEW YORK:  A writer has charged that rock legend Bob Dylan lifted sections of his Nobel Prize lecture from SparkNotes, the free online study guide aimed at students, reports AFP.
Dylan, the surprise winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, last week delivered a long-awaited lecture that was a requirement to receive the eight million kroner ($923,000) prize from the Swedish Academy.
Author Andrea Pitzer, examining his lecture for the news site Slate, said she found striking similarities between Dylan's quotations from Herman Melville's classic novel "Moby-Dick" and the SparkNotes version.
Dylan, for example, quotes Melville as calling the elusive whale Moby "the embodiment of evil." 

Dylan accused of lifting passages of Nobel lecture

NEW YORK: A writer has charged that rock legend Bob Dylan lifted sections of his Nobel Prize lecture from SparkNotes, the free online study guide aimed at students, reports AFP. Dylan, the surprise winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, last week delivered a long-awaited lecture that was a requirement to receive the eight million kroner ($923,000) prize from the Swedish Academy. Author Andrea Pitzer, examining his lecture for the news site Slate, said she found striking similarities between Dylans quotations from Herman Melvilles classic novel Moby-Dick and the SparkNotes version. Dylan, for example, quotes Melville as calling the elusive whale Moby the embodiment of evil.