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APRIL 19, 2022

Earlier today, the Israeli-based plagiarism detection service Copyleaks announced a new $6 million round of funding to help them further develop their product. Simply put, plagiarism detection is changing, with multiple groups seeking to make it smarter and useful in a larger number of cases. The Need for Smart Plagiarism Detection.

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MAY 23, 2022

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. Mange, who has nearly 4 million followers, pointed out the copying in a video comparing the two works. Audi has also removed the video.

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JANUARY 4, 2024

A law firm has filed a lawsuit against a competitor alleging copyright infringement over a copied brief, testing both ethical and legal norms. The post Law Firm Sues Competitor Over Copied Brief appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The boundaries of plagiarism vary wildly depending on the type of, the field that it is in, and the expectations of the audience. The rules of plagiarism change based on the norms of the space the work is in. On one hand, unattributed copying is rampant, widely accepted and even necessary. Understanding the Plagiarism.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

The modern history of plagiarism is dominated by the evolution of tech. The post The Dark Ages of Academic Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today. However, there was one particularly dark time that's making a return.

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JULY 10, 2024

Nexon, developers of The First Descendent, are accused of copying icons from Destiny 2. The post Copyright, Trademark and Plagiarism in Icons appeared first on Plagiarism Today. However, the story is more complicated.

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JUNE 27, 2022

On the surface, the plagiarism allegations against Kevin Kruse are pedestrian. . 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. .

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

On Tuesday, journalist Robert Kolker published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled Who is the Bad Art Friend? This prompted Dorland to first report the alleged plagiarism to a wide variety of groups and worked on getting the story pulled while working through lawyers to demand financial compensation.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Sterling referred to this as “consensual plagiarism”, meaning that the marketing firm was making these works available for journalists and to use, with or without attribution, on their sites. Why Press Release Plagiarism Happens – and Why it Matters. Press release plagiarism is extremely common.

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APRIL 4, 2022

Why is it acceptable for Carolyn Keene to be a pseudonym for over a dozen authors penning Nancy Drew stories, but not ok for Cristiane Serruya to use ghostwriters when producing books with her name (outside the fact the books were plagiarized from other sources). The answer is that plagiarism is complicated.

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AUGUST 24, 2022

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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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. . However, this raises an interesting question: Is Batman a plagiarism? Through our modern lens, this kind of copying can seem insane.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

However, in November that same year, the article became the subject of controversy as two researchers, Saviour Formosa and Janice Formosa Pace, both from the same university as Azzopardi, claimed that parts of the article were plagiarized from their earlier work. . This includes allegations of plagiarism and data manipulation.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Katz took to Twitter to call out the Chilluminati Podcast for allegedly plagiarizing from his book, Gangsters of Capitalism. Katz distilled all of his observations into a lengthy article , which he published as part of his newsletter. If I was working on a paper or writing an article sure, I'd dig deeper. Was it plagiarism?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A recent article on Retraction Watch tells the story of Svein Åge K. Johnsen and Flagstad contacted Vision and were quickly contacted by the paper’s lead author, Natanya Meyer, who admitted to the plagiarism and said that they “needed a publication in order to submit my thesis.”That Why was this copying not detected?

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JUNE 8, 2022

However, according to an investigation by The Mercury News , roughly one-fifth of the book was copied from a variety of online sources. Roughly half of the copied paragraphs did not contain footnotes, and none of the paragraphs indicated that the text was quoted. Examining the Plagiarism.

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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. Johnson was fired from Buzzfeed in 2014 after plagiarism was found in 41 of the 500 words they examined following an initial plagiarism scandal.

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APRIL 28, 2022

In schools, plagiarism carries with it severe penalties, including potential expulsion. However, if you search for how to avoid plagiarism, you’ll likely receive a ton of bad advice. Simply put, avoiding plagiarism, actually avoiding plagiarism, isn’t about adding a new tool to your arsenal, it’s about changing the way you write.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Last week, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, Xavier Bettel, was accused of plagiarism in a thesis that he wrote for the University of Nancy. The plagiarism was discovered by reporter.lu and covered by Pol Reuter (French language article). In total, of the 56 page paper, only two were free of plagiarism.

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JULY 27, 2021

The reason is that the track has faced not one, but two separate allegations of plagiarism, with many fans and critics alike wondering if the band may have run afoul of copyright law. However, this turned out to be more of a licensing than a traditional plagiarism issue. The challenge is determining what is plagiarism and what is not.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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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OCTOBER 25, 2021

When people learn what I do for a living, one of the first questions I am usually asked is, “Has the internet made plagiarism much worse?”. Anecdotally, it feels like plagiarism stories are becoming much more common. Obviously, it’s had an impact on plagiarism, but that raises a question: How did the web change plagiarism?

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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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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

However, Casey Newton at The Verge noticed something else askew with the top posts: Nearly all of them were plagiarized. Though it’s impossible to know where the source actually is, Ghanaian rapper M.anifest posted the image on Twitter two weeks prior, and it’s likely that too was a copy from somewhere else.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

From a plagiarism standpoint, this has been a very bad week for comedian and host of The Late Late Show, James Corden. Corden, for his part, apologized for the plagiarism, saying that he “indadvertently told a brillian Ricky Gervais joke on the show”. In both cases, the comedians that were copied haven’t pushed the issue very hard.

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APRIL 25, 2023

TikToker and Singaporean essay tutor Brooke Lim is facing allegations of plagiarism after her most recent essay featured copied text. The post Celebrity TikTok Essay Expert Accused of Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

However, that is just the latest in a decade-long history of discussing copyright, plagiarism and other authorship issues as they pertain to Halloween and horror. So, this year we’re going to take a look back at the various tales of copyright infringement and/or plagiarism that we’ve looked at over the years.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Two things that won’t be on many people’s minds will be copyright and plagiarism issues. So, with that in mind, here are five stories from this site’s history that show some ways copyright and plagiarism have helped shape the Thanksgiving holiday season (and vice versa). 1: Plagiarism in Pop Culture: Arthur.

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JULY 6, 2022

Confusion about plagiarism is rampant, and it is only getting worse. This is especially true as schools push forward zero tolerance policies on plagiarism and hand down dire warnings of expulsions and suspensions over plagiarism issues. Plagiarism detection software is really just copy detection software.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The move follows allegations in October that his 1998 thesis , written to obtain the degree, was heavily plagiarized. According to reports, of the 56 pages only two were free of plagiarized content, the introduction and conclusion, and one 20-page section was lifted wholly from the European Parliament website.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As of this writing, Joy’s Instagram post is still up with the copied caption intact. But, while the dispute itself is little more than a minor scrape between celebrities, it actually calls back to a long history of plagiarized love letters. To be clear, none of this is to excuse plagiarism. Why It’s So Common.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

If you want a more complete list of the Halloween-related articles that have been featured on this site, check out this post from October 2021. However, if you want more of a highlight reel, this article should help get you started. That copy was preserved and is the basis for all copies of the film we have today.

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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Upon examination, The Berkshire Eagle realized the plagiarism and published Nugent’s letter. Further, they claimed to routinely check for plagiarism in letters to the editor, but that, “The plagiarized letter included minor alterations to the original text, which complicated our usual plagiarism screening.”

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JUNE 1, 2022

Earlier this week, search engine optimization (SEO) expert Muhammad Awais took to Twitter to ask Google’s John Mueller a seemingly simple question: Is there any specific percentage of plagiarism that is acceptable in content? SEO experts are far from alone in looking for a magical percentage that makes plagiarism acceptable.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

As such, new copies of Makan are now unavailable on major retailer websites. Some claim that it casts doubt on Bloomsbury’s editorial process and is calling for the publisher to say more about its role in the plagiarism. Understanding the Plagiarism and its Consequences. The plagiarism itself is straightforward to understand.

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APRIL 13, 2022

With so many episodes and so many sketches, it should be no surprise that the writers of SNL once turned their satire toward the issue of plagiarism. Content Warning: Spoilers for the SNL sketch entitled plagiarism. Karen tries to claim that they might have copied her paper, but the teacher doesn’t fall for it and gives her an “F”.

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