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? 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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JUNE 28, 2023

Even after the NFT market crash, the crypto community still faces issues of plagiarism and copyright infringement. The post Yet Another NFT Plagiarism Scandal appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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. 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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MARCH 16, 2022

Course Hero states that it has a policy to not tolerate copyright infringement. It is unclear if Berkovitz filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice against the works or not. Tests, study guides, answer keys and other materials produced by instructors can be protected by copyright.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Now that the fallout from hbomberguy's YouTube plagiarism video is settling, what can the victims do against their plagiarists? The post What Can YouTube Plagiarism Victims Do? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Following a plagiarism scandal in a popular magazine, an anticipated manga has been removed from distribution. The post When Should Plagiarism Disappear? appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Is that what's best?

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 5, 2022

On the other side, users and websites are repeatedly hit with surprise notices of infringement and demands to pay $1,000 or more for the alleged infringement. They are launching a new copyright infringement tracking tool , dubbed LicenseGuard, that they hope will break this cycle and result in a better-educated internet.

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Plagiarism Today

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. 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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Plagiarism Today

MAY 21, 2024

A recent pair of Supreme Court decisions have addressed when one can file a copyright lawsuit. The post When is it Too Late to File a Copyright Infringement Lawsuit? appeared first on Plagiarism Today. So, how late is too late?

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Plagiarism Today

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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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 9, 2024

The post How Mystery Science Theater 3000 Helped Expose a Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today. In 1997, MST3K featured a little-known film entitled Clonus. Eight years later, a major studio released an eerily similar film.

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APRIL 29, 2024

Battlestate Games, the makers of Escape from Tarkov, accuse a competitor of plagiarism in a very unwise move. The post Escape from Tarkov’s Developers Make a Dumb Plagiarism Allegation appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

But, before I go, I wanted to leave you with five tales of how copyright has shaped Halloween that I’ve written over the years. 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. 1: How a Copyright Mistake Created the Modern Zombie.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 26, 2023

The post Article Spinning: Generative Writing Before Generative AI appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Nearly twenty years ago, a new technology appeared to make it easy to generate original text. Here are the lessons we didn't learn from it.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Yesterday, news broke that Pearson Education, the largest publisher of textbooks in the world, has filed a lawsuit against the website Chegg alleging widespread copyright infringement of its content on the site. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement. The post Understanding the Pearson v.

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MARCH 30, 2022

However, as per The Hollywood Reporter, he now finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes plagiarism battle. But this isn’t solely a case about copyright infringement, it’s also a case about ethics and honesty. ??Masihzadeh In the end, I don’t fully understand the copyright element of this case. Bottom Line.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

Most notably, that included the PUBG Corporation, which filed a lawsuit against Epic Games in May 2018 for alleged copyright infringement. To be clear, this doesn’t mean that a copyright infringement or other lawsuit is coming. The post Did Fortnite Plagiarize Among Us? appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The post The Day Before Accused of Trailer Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Developers for the upcoming video game The Day Before have worsened their problems by releasing a trailer that resembles earlier works.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Facebook and Instagram have become rife with copyright infringement notice scams. The post How to Avoid Facebook/Instagram Copyright Scams appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Here's how they work and how to avoid them.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That especially true given the thought of me repeatedly typing (or more realistically pasting) Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious into this article. If Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious can face a copyright infringement lawsuit, almost any song can. This isn’t to imply that the plaintiffs were acting in bad faith.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. HLG ultimately filed suit for copyright infringement.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In addition, ChatGPT can recall large parts of their copyright-protected articles, which effectively bypasses their paywalls. In addition, they called out the lack of specific copyright infringements by third parties.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 1, 2024

In this case, eight major news publications are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. In addition, ChatGPT can recall large parts of their copyright-protected articles, which effectively bypasses their paywalls. In addition, they called out the lack of specific copyright infringements by third parties.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 19, 2024

The post The Fight to Save the Photo Stealers Website appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Photo Stealers, a 12-year project to out photo thieves, is being sued for $100 million and was briefly closed by an angry photographer.

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JUNE 22, 2022

In December 2020, the United States government passed the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act (CASE Act). The act, to put it simply, created the Copyright Small Claims Board (CCB), a “small claims court” to hear copyright infringement disputes. Copyright Office has been working to launch the board.

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

A battle over the practice of skiplagging has created a bizarre copyright verdict that could impact the use of logos online. The post Skiplagged, American Airlines and a Bizarre Copyright Verdict appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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JUNE 6, 2024

The post Adobe’s Terms of Service Debacle appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Adobe users are in revolt over changes to the company's terms of service. But how bad are they should users be worried?

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

appeared first on Plagiarism Today. A new study published in the Harvard Business Review examines the impact of AI systems on human creators. The answers are not encouraging. The post Does AI Replace Human Creators?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A famous AI-generated piece of art has been rejected by the US Copyright Office. The post Another AI Copyright Registration Rejected appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Here's why the decision matters and what it means.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

1: Manhattan Judge Rejects ‘Server Test’ for Internet Copyright Infringement. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a controversial ruling denying the “server test” of copyright law and ruling that embedding images can be an infringement of copyright law. ” As such, Warner Bros.,

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 4, 2024

but it also raises some serious copyright and trademark issues. The post Copyright, Trademark and Willy’s Chocolate Experience appeared first on Plagiarism Today. The recent "Glasgow Willy Wonka Event" may have launched a thousand memes.

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MARCH 27, 2023

The post Why the Internet Archive Lost appeared first on Plagiarism Today. On Friday, a judge ruled in favor of the publishers against the Internet Archive. Here's why the Internet Archive lost that case.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The post Why Cox’s $1 Billion Victory May Not Matter appeared first on Plagiarism Today. A $1 billion judgment against Cox was recently vacated. However, it's not a full victory for the ISP nor a full defeat for the music industry.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

The first question, at 9:19 in the video, asks, “How should content creators respond to sites that use AI to plagiarize the content, modify it, and then outrank them in search results?”. Article spinning, is a tool that automatically rewrites articles by replacing key words with synonyms.

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MAY 24, 2022

2: Copyright Infringement: Court Fixes May 25 to Hear Motion for Injunction Against Transcorp Hilton. million) in damages for the alleged copyright infringements. 3: PokerPaint Copyright Thief Brett Butz Called Out as WSOP Beckons. The post 3 Count: Fast Movies appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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