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A Frustrating Pagan Plagiarism Scandal

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Earlier this month, Pagan author Mat Auryn took to Twitter to highlight what he said was a very clear case of verbatim plagiarism of his work. I discovered that this book has completely plagiarized Psychic Witch in almost its entirety. The plagiarism, to put it modestly, was both flagrant and obvious.

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Audi and the Challenge of Cross-Media Plagiarism Detection

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Over the weekend, the German carmaker Audi became the center of a massive plagiarism controversy as a new video campaign was accused of ripping off content from a prominent Chinese video blogger. Audi, for its part, blamed the plagiarism on a “lack of supervision and lax review.” The Challenge of Cross-Media Plagiarism Detection.

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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

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Back in September , I reported on Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report and how Casey Newton, a reporter at The Verge, noticed that nearly all the top posts on Facebook for the quarter were plagiarized. . However, Newton’s report comes as the Wall Street Journal is also examining Facebook’s efforts to block plagiarized and pirated content.

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Why Plagiarism Thrives on Facebook

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However, Casey Newton at The Verge noticed something else askew with the top posts: Nearly all of them were plagiarized. Then are those 15 posts actually plagiarism or just people using Facebook how they’re expected to use it? When it comes to plagiarism, we often tend to think of it in terms of a plagiarist and a victim.

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Retroactive Credit and the Future of Music Plagiarism

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However, this led Joe Vitagliano at American Songwriter to ask a simple question: Is Retroactive Credit The New Way To Get Away With Plagiarism? However, Vitagliano argues that Rodrigo is a unique case as she has only released one album and has already faced allegations of plagiarism both in two of her songs and her album’s cover.

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Why Bots Shouldn’t Decide Copyright Cases

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The case pits Sheeran against Structured Asset Sales, a company that owns a one-third stake in the copyrights of Ed Townsend. Sheeran’s attorneys argued the elements that were allegedly copied, namely a chord progression and the harmonic rhythm, were both commonplace in music and not protectable by copyright. The Battle of the Bots.

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Tattoos and Copyright: A Potent Combination

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This prompted Alexander to file a lawsuit against Take-Two, claiming copyright infringement of her work. He called an earlier decision in the case one of the 5 worst copyright decisions in 2020 and, with the jury verdict, called it a loss for bodily autonomy and free speech. In March 2015, a jury awarded the estate of Marvin Gay $7.4

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