Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

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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AUGUST 24, 2022

Earlier this month, Pagan author Mat Auryn took to Twitter to highlight what he said was a very clear case of verbatim plagiarism of his work. I discovered that this book has completely plagiarized Psychic Witch in almost its entirety. The plagiarism, to put it modestly, was both flagrant and obvious.

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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. Johnson was fired from Buzzfeed in 2014 after plagiarism was found in 41 of the 500 words they examined following an initial plagiarism scandal.

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APRIL 28, 2022

In schools, plagiarism carries with it severe penalties, including potential expulsion. However, if you search for how to avoid plagiarism, you’ll likely receive a ton of bad advice. Simply put, avoiding plagiarism, actually avoiding plagiarism, isn’t about adding a new tool to your arsenal, it’s about changing the way you write.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

From a plagiarism standpoint, this has been a very bad week for comedian and host of The Late Late Show, James Corden. Corden, for his part, apologized for the plagiarism, saying that he “indadvertently told a brillian Ricky Gervais joke on the show”. In both cases, the comedians that were copied haven’t pushed the issue very hard.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

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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Plagiarism Today

MAY 23, 2022

Over the weekend, the German carmaker Audi became the center of a massive plagiarism controversy as a new video campaign was accused of ripping off content from a prominent Chinese video blogger. Mange, who has nearly 4 million followers, pointed out the copying in a video comparing the two works. Audi has also removed the video.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

According to Finger, that story, entitled The Case of the Chemical Syndicate , was a direct plagiarism of Partners of Peril , a novel featuring the superhero The Shadow, that was published in November 1936. However, this raises an interesting question: Is Batman a plagiarism? This type of copying was very common.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 3, 2022

Katz took to Twitter to call out the Chilluminati Podcast for allegedly plagiarizing from his book, Gangsters of Capitalism. He provided a both an AI and a human created transcript of the podcast and highlighted how several plagiarism detection tools flagged passages as being similar to his work. Was it plagiarism?

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Johnsen and Flagstad contacted Vision and were quickly contacted by the paper’s lead author, Natanya Meyer, who admitted to the plagiarism and said that they “needed a publication in order to submit my thesis.”That How was Meyer able to obtain a copy of the unpublished paper? Why was this copying not detected?

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JUNE 27, 2022

On the surface, the plagiarism allegations against Kevin Kruse are pedestrian. . According to an article published on Reason , roughly six sentences of his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University contained text that was either copied directly or near-verbatim from outside sources that were not cited in the paper. .

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Google is now appealing that decision and, as part of their defense, allege that the CCI plagiarized parts of the EU ruling , including using evidence that was not introduced into the Indian proceedings. According to Google, there were at least 50 instances of copying, some of which were “word-for-word”. Copy and Paste Roundup.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Last week, Luxembourg’s Prime Minister, Xavier Bettel, was accused of plagiarism in a thesis that he wrote for the University of Nancy. The plagiarism was discovered by reporter.lu According to the report, nearly all the 1999 thesis was plagiarized save a brief introduction and a brief conclusion that appears to be original.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

When people learn what I do for a living, one of the first questions I am usually asked is, “Has the internet made plagiarism much worse?”. Anecdotally, it feels like plagiarism stories are becoming much more common. Obviously, it’s had an impact on plagiarism, but that raises a question: How did the web change plagiarism?

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

As such, new copies of Makan are now unavailable on major retailer websites. Some claim that it casts doubt on Bloomsbury’s editorial process and is calling for the publisher to say more about its role in the plagiarism. Understanding the Plagiarism and its Consequences. The plagiarism itself is straightforward to understand.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As of this writing, Joy’s Instagram post is still up with the copied caption intact. But, while the dispute itself is little more than a minor scrape between celebrities, it actually calls back to a long history of plagiarized love letters. To be clear, none of this is to excuse plagiarism. Why It’s So Common.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 13, 2022

With so many episodes and so many sketches, it should be no surprise that the writers of SNL once turned their satire toward the issue of plagiarism. Content Warning: Spoilers for the SNL sketch entitled plagiarism. Karen tries to claim that they might have copied her paper, but the teacher doesn’t fall for it and gives her an “F”.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Back in September , I reported on Facebook’s Widely Viewed Content Report and how Casey Newton, a reporter at The Verge, noticed that nearly all the top posts on Facebook for the quarter were plagiarized. . However, Newton’s report comes as the Wall Street Journal is also examining Facebook’s efforts to block plagiarized and pirated content.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

Lin pointed out the similarities on Twitter, highlighting various elements that were clearly copied from his earlier work. . I have to explain this matter, COD Vanguard Samoye skin plagiarism. Lin, for his part, said that, while he is a Call of Duty fan, he was “very disappointed” to see his work copied in such a manner.

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Plagiarism Today

JANUARY 10, 2023

Over the course of their collaboration, u/jhhn had provided her friend with several example essays she had written, one of which Tia “barely even tweaked” and submitted as her own with significant copying and pasting. In the early 2000s, I was dealing with widespread plagiarism of my work, including poetry, stories and essays.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

On Friday, Buzzfeed published an article that highlights the widespread and long-running plagiarism of Snopes CEO and co-founder David Mikkelson. Mikkelson, for his part, has admitted to the plagiarism and has been suspended from his editorial duties at the site. More Than Just Plagiarism.

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MAY 3, 2022

Specifically, the note said that the reporter in question had copied passages that were “not central to the stories” and instead represented background or supplemental material. The editor’s note is similar for each article, the only change being to highlight the specific elements that were copied. NBC’s Handling of the Case.

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MAY 11, 2022

2: Riot Games sues Mobile Legends: Bang Bang for Plagiarism—Again. Next up today, Eva Martinello at Dot Esports reports that Riot Games has filed a lawsuit against Shanghai-based Moonton Games alleging that Moonton has copied assets from them when making the game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

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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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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The move follows allegations in October that his 1998 thesis , written to obtain the degree, was heavily plagiarized. According to reports, of the 56 pages only two were free of plagiarized content, the introduction and conclusion, and one 20-page section was lifted wholly from the European Parliament website.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Soon, many others began to join in, with one even suggesting that Malik should be awarded “A gold medal for plagiarism” as part of his efforts. To be clear, this isn’t Malik’s first brush with plagiarism. However, it’s an interesting tale and shows how plagiarism is discovered in the most unusual of ways.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

However, Casey Newton at The Verge noticed something else askew with the top posts: Nearly all of them were plagiarized. Though it’s impossible to know where the source actually is, Ghanaian rapper M.anifest posted the image on Twitter two weeks prior, and it’s likely that too was a copy from somewhere else.

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AUGUST 30, 2022

1 As we discussed earlier this month , the 2022 school year is shaping up to be a very interesting one when it comes to plagiarism and other issues of academic integrity. In short, the landscape of academic plagiarism is changing and students are caught in the middle of those shifts. 2: Avoid Free Plagiarism Checkers.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

In a story that will be eerily familiar to long-time readers of this site, the current Romanian Prime Minister has been accused of plagiarism in his thesis as opposition leaders are already calling for an investigation. s 138-page dissertation was plagiarized from outsides sources that “could not be detected by an anti-plagiarism program.”.

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AUGUST 19, 2021

Over the past 18 months, there has been a major rash of school superintendents being caught committing plagiarism. It started in February 2020 when the now-former Katy Independent School District Lance Hindt was accused of having plagiarized his dissertation. To make matters worse, her explanation for the plagiarism is horrible.

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JUNE 1, 2022

Earlier this week, search engine optimization (SEO) expert Muhammad Awais took to Twitter to ask Google’s John Mueller a seemingly simple question: Is there any specific percentage of plagiarism that is acceptable in content? SEO experts are far from alone in looking for a magical percentage that makes plagiarism acceptable.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

” The reason was that, the book in question, Paid to Kneel , was plagiarized from an earlier work by a user named Blue_King that was posted on a Supernatural fan fiction forum. After some digging, KokomRoilly found multiple lengthy passages of verbatim copying and posted highlighted passages on their Twitter account.

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Patently-O

JANUARY 4, 2024

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Upon examination, The Berkshire Eagle realized the plagiarism and published Nugent’s letter. Further, they claimed to routinely check for plagiarism in letters to the editor, but that, “The plagiarized letter included minor alterations to the original text, which complicated our usual plagiarism screening.”

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

At that time, Kruse was facing allegations that he had committed plagiarism, first in his 2000 dissertation at Cornell University and later in his 2015 book One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. Plagiarism findings such as this are often warning signs of additional copying in the work.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In Australia, long-time conservative commentator Peter Gleeson has left News Corp following a series of plagiarism allegations. . However, shortly after publication, another UK journalist, Josh Bavas, noticed that several paragraphs of one of the articles were copied verbatim from his earlier work without any citation.

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JANUARY 20, 2022

Coy, for his part, didn’t deny the copying. ” When pressed on whether his copying was plagiarism, he said, “If you want to go technically, then yes.” The temptation to simply plagiarize rather than risk saying the “wrong” thing is as understandable as it is unethical.

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