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Plagiarism as a Social Norm

Plagiarism Today

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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3 Count: Clubbed Penguin

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Joe Tidy at the BBC reports that the City of London Police have arrested three people and shuttered the website of a group that was running an unauthorized clone of Club Penguin, the Disney social media site/game that shuttered in 2017. The post 3 Count: Clubbed Penguin appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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The Battle Over Poker NFTs

Plagiarism Today

I understand a lot of you may be upset that I saw a photo on social media and loved it enough to imitate it in a very different style. ” The case raises questions of fair use and whether the new paintings were transformative enough to be non-infringing or if they were simply derivative works. Bottom Line.

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We Need to Rethink YouTube

Plagiarism Today

Rules around fair use, notice and takedown and so forth are replaced by bots that are incapable of understanding the nuances of the law itself. Back when I first launched Plagiarism Today in 2005, the internet was a very different place. Social media silos like Twitter, Facebook and TikTok dominate the landscape.

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Parsing the Plagiarism of the Bad Art Friend

Plagiarism Today

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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With Friends Like These: Copyright Implications Of Novelists Drawing Inspiration From The Real Lives They Cross

LexBlog IP

Dorland alerted publishers, writing conferences, and journalists to what she considered Larson’s plagiarism and ethical betrayal. The copyright claims came down to a fair use analysis, something that has occupied discussions by this poster before. ” Let’s see why. ’ Piccone v.

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Artists Attack AI: Why The New Lawsuit Goes Too Far

Copyright Lately

Over the past week, the plaintiffs’ lawsuit has been the subject of thousands of articles which have largely parroted the complaint’s key talking point: that AI image generators are nothing more than “ a 21st-century collage tool that remixes the copyright works of millions of artists whose work was used as training data.”