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Fortune Magazine Commentary Lacerates BigTech for Spending More on Legal Than R&D

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A bastion of business coverage of large corporations since the 1920s, Fortune Magazine, lambasted BigTech companies because they “acquire and kill competitors and copy other Continue reading.

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Parsing the Plagiarism of the Bad Art Friend

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On Tuesday, journalist Robert Kolker published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled Who is the Bad Art Friend? The Letter: Doorland accuses Larson of copying her donor letter and including significant portions of it, in particular in early versions of the story. That is, in a word, unacceptable.

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Was Batman a Plagiarism?

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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. It happened in 1939.

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Drake and 21 Savage May Have More (Legal) Issues Than Vogue

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The magazine was part of a faux press tour rollout , including a fake NPR Tiny Desk Concert and a fake Saturday Night Live performance. Drake and 21 Savage jointly promoted the fake magazine on their Instagram with the caption: “Me and my brother on newsstands tomorrow!!

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3 Count: Granted Cert

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She licensed the photo to Vanity Fair magazine for use as an artist reference. However, he claims that Epic has been copying and distributing at least one of those questionnaires without his permission, despite his attempt to get them to license it. The case deals with a photograph taken by Goldsmith in 1981 of the musician Prince.

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The Bizarre Career of Damien Hirst

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Though he clarified that they were not “direct copies”, he claimed there were similarities in style, color choices and techniques used that were overwhelming to him. In 2010, artist Charles Thomspon compiled a list of 15 separate plagiarism allegations against Hirst and published them in the art magazine Jackdaw.

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Manga Publisher Wants Cloudflare to Expose Operators of Popular ‘Piracy’ Sites

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Earlier this month the publisher already asked Cloudflare to disable infringing copies of the Grand Jump magazine made available through these sites. That said, some progress has been made, as the infringing Grand Jump copies are no longer available on wupfile.com, hexupload.net, and manga-zip.is.