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Holiday cheer is upon us and we should take this month-long opportunity to forget about the ills of the world. That, of course, includes the Death of Print. And those must’ve been the exact orders given to the advertising agency that delivered the precious, uplifting clip for The Sun, a Rupert Murdoch-owned UK paper, embedded inside.

Last week I published an interview with Jill Sobule on the website I edit, The Rumpus. Jill’s biggest song was the 1995 hit “I Kissed A Girl.” Katy Perry’s biggest song is also titled “I Kissed A Girl” and was written with the help of her manager, the same guy who originally signed Jill to her label. In the interview Jill Sobule called Katy Perry a “title thieving little slut”. What happened next taught me something new about the Internet: theft spreads.