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3 Count: King of Contracts

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UMG sues TuneCore for $500 million, Marcus King draws fire for photography contract and Google hits 10 billion DMCA URLs. The post 3 Count: King of Contracts appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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The Growth of AI in Plagiarism Detection

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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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A $500,000 Plagiarism Scandal

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According to The Mercury News , In 2009, she was awarded a no-bid contract to be the sole grant writer for the county. However, it was in 2018 that she was offered an additional contract. This has led to Supervisor Otto Lee calling for an inquiry into the book and the various contracts that were awarded McCorquodale.

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Blackmail and the Contract Cheating Industry

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A university launched a sting operation to test contract cheaters. The post Blackmail and the Contract Cheating Industry appeared first on Plagiarism Today. They got was a lesson in blackmail and the dangers of the industry.

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Plagiarism as a Social Norm

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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. A New Framework.

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Plagiarism and Academic Integrity in the 2022 School Year

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1: New Tools to Detect Contract Cheating. In many ways, the fight to detect plagiarism has shifted drastically over the past decade. Services such as Turnitin and Unicheck have made it much more difficult to get away with copy and paste plagiarism. As such, expect to see rapid growth for tools to address this issue.

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Professor Sues University Over Plagiarism Investigation

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Pohl is suing her school claiming it unfairly disciplined her over allegations of plagiarism and that the process the school used to reach its conclusions was full of bias against her. After finishing the investigation, the committee decided that Pohl had not committed plagiarism, but instead had committed “research misconduct” broadly.