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5 Warning Signs a Copyright Notice May Be False

Plagiarism Today

Hosts often receive massive numbers of copyright notices, few of which turn out to be false. The post 5 Warning Signs a Copyright Notice May Be False appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Still, it's important to spot the fakes.

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5 Spooky Articles About Copyright and Halloween

Plagiarism Today

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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Proper Copyright Notice

Erik K Pelton

The following is an edited transcript of my video Proper Copyright Notice. While this podcast is predominantly about trademark issues, I do from time to time like to talk about other intellectual property issues, especially copyright issues. That’s what a proper copyright notice looks like.

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Will AI Copyright Claims Keep Standing After New Ruling?

Copyright Lately

Southern District of New York Judge Colleen McMahon ruled that the plaintiffs failed to show any concrete harm caused by OpenAI’s alleged removal of copyright management information from their articles, which they claim were then used to train ChatGPT’s language model. TransUnion v.

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Google Addresses Scraped and Spun Content

Plagiarism Today

This was in stark contrast to what Mueller said in June 2021, when he openly admitted that, on occasion, Google can accidentally rank copied content over original works and encouraged people to file copyright notices. Article spinning, is a tool that automatically rewrites articles by replacing key words with synonyms.

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Pro-Plex News Articles on Facebook Deleted By Markscan On Behalf of Plex

TorrentFreak

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. Our small request for 2024 was not unreasonable: stop sending us bogus copyright notices.

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Music Company Asks Google to Delist ‘YouTube Downloader’ Wikipedia Article

TorrentFreak

Instead of the usual DMCA copyright notices, the music group asked the search engine to remove various URLs for alleged violations of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. A few years ago, the RIAA started targeting YouTube ripping sites by sending relatively rare takedown requests to Google.

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