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The Growth of AI in Plagiarism Detection

Plagiarism Today

Though a relative upstart in this field, being founded in 2013, Copyleaks has been making steady progress both in their product and their business. They’ve been excellent at detecting copied and pasted text, even with some amount of rewriting. The Need for Smart Plagiarism Detection. Expanding the Usefulness. Bottom Line.

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3 Count: Dark Horse Dismissal

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Mark Savage at the BBC reports that Katy Perry has emerged victorious once again in the lawsuit over her 2013 song Dark Horse. Genius filed the lawsuit in 2019 alleging that Google was unlawfully copying lyrics to songs that they had hosted. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. million in damages. copyright law.

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Jury Clears Apple, Shyamalan: No Access, No Infringement

Copyright Lately

The long-running case, which wrapped Friday in Riverside, California, centered on allegations that Apple TV+s Servant was a “wholesale copy” of Francesca Gregorinis 2013 indie film, The Truth About Emanuel (read my trial preview here). Night Shyamalan, Apple, and the nine other defendants in Gregorini v.

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‘Copying into Copyright Law’: Ireland’s minimalist transposition of Directive 2019/790

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The most modern instalment of this long history comes in the form of another kind ‘copy’, less richly decorated, yet more relevant and politically sensitive for a country that has established a long-term foreign investment “partnership” with the tech and communication industry: the transposition of Directive 2019/790 into Irish law.

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3 Count: Hey Mickey!

Plagiarism Today

The case dates back to 2013 when Basil filed a notice of copyright termination on the album and her song. Atkinson sued Netflix and Dark Horse Comics, alleging that Umbrella Academy copies characters and elements from a 1996 comic book he created for Rogue Satellite Comics. However, a UK company named Stillwater Ltd.

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The Importance of Transparency in Research Integrity

Plagiarism Today

Earlier this week, the journal BMC Medicine announced that it will not retract a controversial 2013 paper authored by botanist Steven Newmaster. The paper, originally published in 2013, brought Newmaster to prominence in the field of botany and led to massive amounts of not just academic success, but also entrepreneurial success.

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Protecting Semiconductor Chip Design under the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA) – Part I (Registration and Inspection)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The SCPA legally protects layouts of integrated circuits upon registration, making them illegal to copy without permission. The deposit can be either a physical copy of the mask work or a digital copy in a format specified by the Office. It is authorized by the federal Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA).