Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With the launch of Grok, xAI's new AI system, questions arose about where its data came from and if it was copying OpenAI's homework. The post When AI Plagiarizes AI appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 24, 2024

In September, Games Workshop filed 12 claims against a user offering copied 3D models online. Now the user is finally shutting down. The post Printed Minis and the Power of the Copyright Claims Board appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

JUNE 21, 2022

The similarities included both scenes and ideas that were rewritten, as well as lengthy passages of text that were copied either verbatim or near-verbatim. Hughes, for his part, apologized for the copying. He claimed that it didn’t matter if he copied, it mattered if he did something new and meaningful with it.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 20, 2022

On one hand, unattributed copying is rampant, widely accepted and even necessary. Much of what lawyers write have only one or two ways that they can correctly be written, thus it’s common to copy the works of others, especially from one’s own firm or their past work. While cases like this one are rare, they do happen.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

Mange, who has nearly 4 million followers, pointed out the copying in a video comparing the two works. This kicked off a firestorm of controversy in China, with Audi, M&C and Lau all apologizing for the copying. All these systems are remarkable feats of technology and have helped shape our understanding of copying.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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

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TorrentFreak

AUGUST 5, 2024

In addition, it was apparent that the copy had been sourced from pirate streaming site, Obaflix. The mayor was pleased with the turnout too and proudly broadcasted it through a livestream on Instagram. Amidst all this joy, however, people started to notice a watermark on the film that was clearly associated with piracy.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 18, 2021

A Long History of Copying. However, it wasn’t the end of Epic Games’ issues with copying. Though Epic Games has long been heavy-handed with its copying in Fortnite , this story seems to have upset not just the developers and creators, but the gamers. Their copying is flagrant, but unlikely to be illegal.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

Image: Shutterstock There has been lots of ink spilled over the issue of Artificial Intelligence (AI) developers free riding on the backs of creators by copying and ingesting their content without permission to produce AI “created” content, output that sometimes competes directly in the market with the original work.

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 1, 2023

Authors have been reporting that Amazon has been pulling their books because of pirated copies that allegedly breaking an exclusivity clause. The post How Amazon is Punishing Victims of Piracy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

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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Plagiarism Today

MAY 29, 2024

It's accused of copying a store that's just a short walk away. An Australian business has sparked an unusual plagiarism controversy. The post Australian Business Accused of Plagiarizing a Whole Store appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

They further claimed that the Disney songwriters, Richard and Robert Sherman, gained access to their version of the song either from a club where Parker used to perform at , including their version of the song, or via a copy they sent to Disney. As with most such cases, their belief that they were copied is, most likely, completely genuine.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

Though the company provides traditional copy-and-paste plagiarism detection, the service aims to detect the “voice” of the author and the meaning of their text, hunting for sources that may match it too closely, even if the text itself isn’t duplicated. The Need for Smart Plagiarism Detection. Expanding the Usefulness. Bottom Line.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 3, 2023

However, when he got his copy, he saw something was removed. Fantasy artist Jeff Easley recently created a print for the upcoming D&D film. The post The Case of the D&D Poster and the Missing Signature appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Publications are certainly free to copy the releases wholesale, and some do, but the more typical misuse is copying and pasting text from the press release and mixing it with original content, all the while not acknowledging the source. Image from James Stephanie Sterling’s video. Inevitably, some are going to take shortcuts.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

HathiTrust (which had similar facts as Google ), noting that in both cases the scanning created a searchable database but did not output a copy of the books. However, the output of the GAI is a new image (albeit typically not a copy of the scanned image(s)). The court distinguished the Google Books case and Authors Guild, Inc.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

On January 1, 2022, a new law entered into force in the state of Maryland requiring that authors and publishers holding the rights to an e-book title must offer unlimited copies of that title to public libraries in the state at an undetermined “reasonable price” if and when the title is offered to individual consumers.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

On July 30 the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) delivered what can only be described as body blow to the management of collective rights in Canada, although the collective society at the centre of the action, Access Copyright, pointed out in its press release that the Court “refuses to legitimize uncompensated copying by the education … Continue (..)

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 31, 2022

Any time you do copy and paste outside material into your writing, quote and cite it immediately. Contrary to what many believe, plagiarism doesn’t just cover the copying of words without attribution. Copying ideas, concepts and facts without citation can, just as easily, lead to allegations of plagiarism.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

district court ruled that San Francisco–based non-profit Internet Archive (IA) infringed the copyright of four international publishing houses when it loaned unlicensed digital copies of … Continue reading "Implications of the U.S. Earlier this year, a U.S. Controlled Digital Lending Decision in Canada Remain Unclear"

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 10, 2024

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

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Plagiarism Today

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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Hugh Stephens Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

It discussed the longstanding question of who “owns” the news, and who should be compensated when news content is copied. A couple of weeks ago I put up a blog posting looking at the history of copyright and news content over the past two hundred years or more. The US Launches Study on Free-Riding by News Aggregators"

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 9, 2022

I put it on the back burner, but eventually sought out a cached copy of the article to read, even if I couldn’t write about it or link to it. Looking at the comparisons, it’s pretty obvious that she copied my words and then rewrote them to fit her style and message. Here’s Why.” However, when I clicked it, I went to an error page.

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Plagiarism Today

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. However, I have not been asked about this case as of this writing.

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Plagiarism Today

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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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Through our modern lens, this kind of copying can seem insane. Ethically, this type of copying would be seen as plagiarism and the creators would be treated accordingly, especially given that some of the images were traced. These days, comic artists and comic fans do not tolerate this kind of copying. Where We Are Today.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

In analogizing semiconductor chips to traditional areas of copyright law, the legislative history notes that, just as a plagiarist who copies only one chapter of a book may be held liable for infringement, a person may be liable for copying a part of a mask work if it is a qualitatively important portion that results in substantial similarity.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This prompted Florence Stoker to sue, a case she won handily with an order that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, at least one copy made it to the United States, where the original book was already in public domain. That copy was preserved and is the basis for all copies of the film we have today.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the lawsuit, Pearson alleges that Chegg, through the use of thousands of freelancers, provides answers to questions found in textbooks it publishes and, in doing so, often copies the question verbatim or with slight paraphrasing. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement.

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Plagiarism Today

JULY 27, 2021

Konami would have to prove that BTS copied their track, that the copied elements were unique to their track (meaning no prior examples of that beat) and that those elements that were copied qualify for copyright protection and that the use wasn’t a fair use.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to Google, there were at least 50 instances of copying, some of which were “word-for-word”. Copy and Paste Roundup. However, it’s difficult to make that claim of impartiality when your reports copy and paste heavily from outside sources without attribution.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Gervais took the dispute in stride, saying that it was most likely someone on Corden’s writing team that “’came up with it’ for him” and that it was unlikely he would knowingly copy such a famous routine. . I doubt he would knowingly just copy such a famous stand up routine word for word like that.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 25, 2022

In it, she discussed how she copied and pasted the works of others and then rewrote it to, in her mind, make it hers. When copying and pasting heavily into a new work, it can be easy to forget not only what came from where, but what is original versus what needs to be edited. 2: It’s Nearly Impossible to Completely Edit Copied Text.

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Plagiarism Today

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. One does not copy and paste whole paragraphs from another source without any attribution or indication of quoting accidentally.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 18, 2022

A variety of services work to find copied images , and many engage in speculative invoicing and litigation as part of their strategy. As such, the risk of copying images is only rising, and it may be a good time to seek out alternatives. To that end, there are ongoing campaigns to find and detect infringing images online.

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