Peter Engelman, whose work was copied-and-pasted by Sotto from the NYU website, wrote me in an email today: “It has come to my attention that Senator Vicente C Sotto III, the Majority Leader in the Philippine Senate, has lifted a passage from one of my articles without attribution. The Senator used my words in a speech he gave on August 15 regarding a bill before the Philippine Senate (SB2865). The passage, from my article ‘Gandhi and Sanger Debate Love, Lust and Birth Control,’ from the Winter 1999/2000 Margaret Sanger Papers Project Newsletter, issue 23, appears nearly verbatim and without quotation marks or citation information. Neither the Senator nor anyone associated with him asked my permission or contacted the Sanger Project. I find this misuse of my writing to be deceptive, unethical and unacceptable. The accessibility of published material on the Internet in no way lessens the basic protections all writers rely on under intellectual property rights.”