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Google Answers Question About Plagiarized Content, Kind Of

Plagiarism Today

In 2006, for example, Google told legitimate authors not to worry about duplicate content issues. This has made copied content something of a sore spot with many Google watchers. Why SEO Practitioners Cares About Copied Content. However, that’s simply not how plagiarism works and, almost certainly, not how Google works.

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Kevin Kruse and the Peak Political Plagiarism Scandal

Plagiarism Today

According to an article published on Reason , roughly six sentences of his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University contained text that was either copied directly or near-verbatim from outside sources that were not cited in the paper. . Clark, for the record, was accused of copying text without quotation marks while still including footnotes.

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The Not-Quite-So Legal Future for Web Scraping

Plagiarism Today

Web scraping has been one of the longest-running themes on this site, with the first articles about it going live as far back as 2006. . For much of the web’s recent history, we scraping commonly referred a technique through which spammers would copy content from a website and republish it, either rewritten or verbatim.

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Chief Judge Connolly Issues Comprehensive Opinion Setting Forth Court’s Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law on Infringement Claims and Invalidity Defenses as to Patents-in-Suit Following ANDA Trial

Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation Blog

In reaching that conclusion, the Court found that claim 10 of the ‘309 patent has a priority filing date of September 22, 2006 – the date of the #720 provisional application; is presumed to have been invented on that date; and, therefore could not have been anticipated by the Pan article, which was published on December 12, 2006.

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EU copyright law round up – third trimester of 2022

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The proposed Design Law Treaty seeks to streamline the global system for protecting designs and builds upon earlier initiatives such as the work of the WIPO Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications in 2006. European Commission, European Media Freedom Act.

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3 Count: Unplanned Floors

Plagiarism Today

Next up today, the BBC reports that Eurovision 2021 contestant James Newman has secured a major court victory against Kelly-Marie Smith, who claimed that a song Newman co-wrote in 2013 was an infringement of a 2006 track she wrote. According to the lawsuit, Smith penned a track named Can You Tell Me.

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Pirate Bay Proxy Defeats Police’s GitHub Takedown with DMCA Counternotice

TorrentFreak

These proxies act as a copy of The Pirate Bay, making the site accessible through an alternative domain name. This site is in breach of UK law, namely Copyright, Design & Patents Act 1988, Offences under the Fraud Act 2006 and Conspiracy to Defraud,” PIPCU wrote. Dedicated ‘proxy’ sites have also become quite popular.