TorrentFreak

JUNE 28, 2023

Sharing Pirated eBooks & Paywalled Articles Asgaard announced its closure in mid-December 2020 but that didn’t stop at least one of the site’s staff spending Christmas in prison. Around 85 of the articles were obtained from a paywalled service operated by Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet. But that wasn’t all.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On one hand, unattributed copying is rampant, widely accepted and even necessary. Much of what lawyers write have only one or two ways that they can correctly be written, thus it’s common to copy the works of others, especially from one’s own firm or their past work. It’s a bizarre case that demands a closer examination.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The objective was to assess the national implementations of the two articles for compliance with the internal market objective of the CDSMD and with the EU’s law of fundamental rights. re-opening the study prompted a re-examination of the wording of the Dutch implementation of Article 17 CDSMD comparative to other jurisdictions.

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 5, 2024

On January 1, 2024, TorrentFreak published a review of the wrongful DMCA notices filed against us in 2023, either directly via email or at Google demanding deindexing of our articles. Both articles reported positive news related to Plex, based on information released to the media by Plex itself.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 18, 2022

million ($3 million) acquiring a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune. With previous ones selling for around €25,000 ($28,000), their copy cost more than 100 times the going rate. Many copies of the book are already easy to access just through a simple search. Last year, the group spent €2.66

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

Mange, who has nearly 4 million followers, pointed out the copying in a video comparing the two works. This kicked off a firestorm of controversy in China, with Audi, M&C and Lau all apologizing for the copying. All these systems are remarkable feats of technology and have helped shape our understanding of copying.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Press releases and feature articles are routinely provided to publications with the hope that it will encourage the reporters to cover whatever positive news the company wishes to highlight. Staying on the good side of companies is crucial to getting access to review copies and inside information that generates clicks.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

The similarities included both scenes and ideas that were rewritten, as well as lengthy passages of text that were copied either verbatim or near-verbatim. Hughes, for his part, apologized for the copying. He claimed that it didn’t matter if he copied, it mattered if he did something new and meaningful with it.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It was hot on the heels of a very different kind of copying scandal, one that involved Streamlabs announcing the launch of a new product using content copied and pasted from one of their biggest competitors. Hey, can I copy your homework? ? Yeah, just change it up a bit so it’s not obvious you copied. This is our fault.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

They further claimed that the Disney songwriters, Richard and Robert Sherman, gained access to their version of the song either from a club where Parker used to perform at , including their version of the song, or via a copy they sent to Disney. As with most such cases, their belief that they were copied is, most likely, completely genuine.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Costumes are considered “useful articles” and, similar to most of the fashion industry , does not qualify for any kind of copyright protection. . First, design elements that are “physically or conceptually separate” from the article can be protected. However, there are two key exceptions to this. The second limitation is masks.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 29, 2022

If you’re a researcher looking to publish your first article, one of the biggest choices that you will likely be confronted with is the choice of publishing in your work Open Access or going with a traditional, closed access publisher. Traditional publishing works on a business model that involves selling access to the articles they publish.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 11, 2021

Earlier this week, independent fashion designer Bailey Prado took to Instagram to call attention to a different fashion label that, according to her, copied her “whole life.” For example, items that may sell on Prado’s website for up to $300 typical appear as copies on Shein’s app for less than $20.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

Katz distilled all of his observations into a lengthy article , which he published as part of his newsletter. The podcast did provide citations for the episode, including five articles, two Wikipedia entries and a government document. If I was working on a paper or writing an article sure, I'd dig deeper.

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The IPKat

MARCH 4, 2024

This time, Katfriend Spyridon Sipetas (Stockholm University) tells the story of a collaboration – the one between Jacquemus and Nike – that has been already plagued with accusations of copying. Here’s what Spyridon writes: Jacquemus x Nike Swoosh Bag: ‘Just Copy It’ or re-appropriation of Nike’s own trade mark?

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 12, 2024

You can't copyright a baby, but as one company proves, you can copyright a very specific rendition of a baby, if the copy is close enough. The post Copyright and Realistic Baby Dolls appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

However, for every site that offers free stock photography, there are dozens of articles saying why you shouldn’t use them. These articles come from a variety of sources including publishing blogs , sites that help those that run churches and even sites that help photographers enforce their images. Reasons to Calm Down (Some).

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

However, shortly after publication, another journalist, Josh Bavas, took to Twitter to ask why the article copied four paragraphs from a piece that he wrote two years prior. One does not copy and paste whole paragraphs from another source without any attribution or indication of quoting accidentally.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In a similar question at 17:05 in the same video, another user asked, “Why Google is not taking action on copy or spun web stories? Article spinning, is a tool that automatically rewrites articles by replacing key words with synonyms. Can you check on Discover?”.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This month, Newton is at it again and recently published an updated article that looks at the latest quarterly Widely Viewed Content Report. The researchers that prepared the documents further noted that the easiest way to build a successful page on Facebook was to simply copy content that was successful elsewhere. Bottom Line.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

This is the first decision in Europe tackling Articles 3 and 4 of the DSM Directive. Kneschke accused LAION of making a copy of one of his images during the creation of the LAION-5B dataset, thereby infringing his reproduction right under Section 16 UrhG (the German Copyright Code). a German non-profit organization (case No.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A recent article by Austin Mace at Screenrant highlights comments made decades ago by Batman co-creator Bill Finger regarding Batman’s first appearance in Detective Comics #27, published in May 1939. . Through our modern lens, this kind of copying can seem insane. This type of copying was very common. Where We Are Today.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 7, 2021

On Tuesday, journalist Robert Kolker published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled Who is the Bad Art Friend? The Letter: Doorland accuses Larson of copying her donor letter and including significant portions of it, in particular in early versions of the story. That is, in a word, unacceptable.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With the launch of Grok, xAI's new AI system, questions arose about where its data came from and if it was copying OpenAI's homework. The post When AI Plagiarizes AI appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A recent article on Retraction Watch tells the story of Svein Åge K. How was Meyer able to obtain a copy of the unpublished paper? Why was this copying not detected? Meyer, through means unknown, obtained a copy of the original paper and then, after a few modifications, managed to publish it themselves.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

In September, Games Workshop filed 12 claims against a user offering copied 3D models online. Now the user is finally shutting down. The post Printed Minis and the Power of the Copyright Claims Board appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

In some types of programming, especially when there’s only one correct way to do something, copying code isn’t just a shortcut, it’s the norm. Many lawyers also copy and paste heavily in the legal documents in a bid to meet the criteria there. The reason for this is simple: Plagiarism is governed by social norms.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 13, 2022

On Friday of last week, Rush Shalit Barrett filed a lawsuit against The Atlantic , seeking some $1 million in damages after, she claims, a retraction of an article she wrote “destroyed her reputation and career.” However, that article proved to be deeply problematic too. Understanding the Lawsuit.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Last month, the CJEU had an opportunity to tackle once again the direct effect of the InfoSoc Directive in the different context of reprography and private copying under Article 5(2)(a)-(b). Incidentally, at the EU level, the earlier Reprobel ruling also prompted the introduction of Article 16 of the DSM Directive.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Zack Nelson, the man behind JerryRigEverything, claims that Casetify copied his and dbrand's work. And he has significant proof. The post Understanding The JerryRigEverything/Casetify Copyright Battle appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2021

A Long History of Copying. However, it wasn’t the end of Epic Games’ issues with copying. Though Epic Games has long been heavy-handed with its copying in Fortnite , this story seems to have upset not just the developers and creators, but the gamers. Their copying is flagrant, but unlikely to be illegal.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 3, 2022

All totaled, Haake discovered that McCrory had copied some 560 words of his, making up just over half of McCrory’s letter. In a follow-up article this week, Retraction Watch highlighted the work Nick Brown , who quickly found evidence of significant plagiarism in two of the other letters written by McCrory and published in the BJSM.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 15, 2022

Though the name originates from an August 2021 article by Reeves Wiedeman and Lila Shapiro in Vulture , many reporters had written about the story well before that, including an October 2018 article in Publishers Weekly and a December 2020 article by the New York Times. No pirated copies were ever leaked. Bottom Line.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Authors have been reporting that Amazon has been pulling their books because of pirated copies that allegedly breaking an exclusivity clause. The post How Amazon is Punishing Victims of Piracy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

Though the company provides traditional copy-and-paste plagiarism detection, the service aims to detect the “voice” of the author and the meaning of their text, hunting for sources that may match it too closely, even if the text itself isn’t duplicated. The Need for Smart Plagiarism Detection. Expanding the Usefulness. Bottom Line.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With that said, here’s some spooky copyright stories to send chills down your spine: 5 Copyright Issues for Halloween : Starting in October 2010, this article takes a look at some of the more broad copyright issues and how they impact Halloween. That’s exactly what this October 2016 article does.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 29, 2024

It's accused of copying a store that's just a short walk away. An Australian business has sparked an unusual plagiarism controversy. The post Australian Business Accused of Plagiarizing a Whole Store appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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