Plagiarism Today
JULY 27, 2021
On May 21, the popular K-pop band BTS released their latest single, Butter. However, despite the popularity of the track and solid reviews for it, the release itself has been anything but buttery smooth. The reason is that the track has faced not one, but two separate allegations of plagiarism, with many fans and critics alike wondering if the band may have run afoul of copyright law.
Hugh Stephens Blog
DECEMBER 8, 2021
On October 22, the Malta registered giant container ship Zim Kingston, enroute from South Korea to Vancouver, lost 109 containers overboard in heavy seas off the coast of Vancouver Island. Although four containers washed ashore further north up the coast, most are assumed to have sunk.
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Creative Law Center
APRIL 10, 2021
You can't just slap your style on someone else's creative work and call it transformative. Fair use guidelines are evolving. The post New Fair Use Guidelines: the Defense Narrows appeared first on Creative Law Center.
Intellectual Property Law Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2021
I. Introduction. This is the second article of the multi-part series discussing benefits of prosecuting patents under Patent Prosecution Highway or PPH. The first article can be accessed here. To recap, PPH is a set of initiatives promulgated by participating patent offices around the world to accelerate patent prosecution in countries of the participating patent offices.
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Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?
Plagiarism Today
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. The article, the inquiries for which resulted in an investigation by Snopes itself , has resulted in the retraction of some 54 articles and resulted in another 140 pieces being identified as being possibly problematic.
Hugh Stephens Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2021
It seems as if it was only a few weeks ago that I was writing a similar summary for 2020, the “annus horribilis” when COVID first hit us, but in fact it was 51 weeks ago yet many of the same pandemic and copyright-related issues that I wrote about last year are still with us, … Continue reading "Some Copyright Highlights in 2021-Around the World and in Canada?
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Intellectual Property Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Note: First published in The Intellectual Property Strategist and Law.com. This article is Part Two of a Three-Part Article Series. Artificial intelligence is changing industry and society, and metrics at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) reflect its impact. In a recent publication, the USPTO indicated that from 2002 to 2018 the share of all patent applications relating to artificial intelligence grew from 9% to approximately 16%.
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 5, 2021
Disclosure: Though I have no relationship or connection with this story, I am a long-time fan of James Rolfe and his work. James Rolfe is one of the most famous YouTubers working today. Best known for his character the Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN) Rolfe has enjoyed over 17 years of success on YouTube spread across multiple shows. One of those series, Monster Madness, has been a long-running October tradition in our house.
Hugh Stephens Blog
AUGUST 9, 2021
Singapore’s long awaited and long debated revisions to its copyright law were tabled in Parliament at the beginning of July with a view to enactment by the end of summer. This follows a two-month public consultation by the Law Ministry and Intellectual Property Office. The revisions have been in the works for some time, beginning … Continue reading "Singapore’s Copyright Act Revisions: A Step in the Right Direction, But….
Erik K Pelton
AUGUST 19, 2021
A “brand” is the sum total of a number of things that go to the heart of a business’ relationship with its customers and within the marketplace of competitors: For more about Building a Bold Brand , see my book ! The post What is a brand made of? appeared first on Erik M Pelton & Associates, PLLC.
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Technology & Marketing Law Blog
DECEMBER 28, 2021
This is the most interesting Internet personal jurisdiction opinion I’ve read in years. I know that sounds like damning with faint praise, because many of you cannot find much enthusiasm about any jurisdiction ruling. Well, get excited about this one. If this opinion isn’t overwritten by further appeals, I’m likely to include it in my Internet Law reader as the principal case on jurisdiction–which would be the first time I’ve changed my principal cases on jurisdicti
TorrentFreak
DECEMBER 27, 2021
With more ways to stream online video than ever before, protecting video continues to be a key issue for copyright holders. This is often achieved through Digital Rights Management, which is often referred to by the initials DRM. In a nutshell, DRM is an anti-piracy tool that dictates when and where digital content can be accessed. Widevine DRM is one of the leading players in the field.
JD Supra Law
DECEMBER 1, 2021
There is a split developing in the world over whether artificial intelligence software (AI) can be listed as an inventor on a patent application. A recent U.S. district court decision illustrates the consistent position taken in the U.S. In September 2021, the district court held that there was “overwhelming evidence” that Congress defined the term inventor in the Patent Act to include only natural persons.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
For most of its existence, international copyright policy at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has focused on the creation and harmonization of exclusive rights. This state of play was only disrupted in 2004, when Chile first proposed to WIPO’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) that it explore the issue of limitations and exceptions (L&Es).
The IPKat
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Former Guest Kat Peter Ling, together with his associate, Joana Gurtner , report on the recent Swiss Supreme Court decision on the Nespresso Capsule 3D mark. Coffee capsules have turned out to be a revolution for how coffee is served in millions of homes … and also for case law on 3D trade marks. In a decision that has just been published (available here in French), the Swiss Federal Supreme Court invalidated the 3D mark of Nestlé's related to the shape of the capsules.
Plagiarism Today
DECEMBER 15, 2021
It is that time of year again. The holiday season is upon, and we are now 10 days away from Christmas. So, as I do most years, I’m preparing to take some time off from the site until the new year (or just before) but I wanted to make sure that I left everyone with something seasonally appropriate. To that end, this is something of an advent calendar.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Building a new website is literally easier than it’s ever been. There are countless services that will help you get started and a never-ending slew of tools to help you get your business or personal endeavor online. However, that’s not to say that there is no work. One still needs to make the site look attractive, fill it with useful content, and then maintain/update the site moving forward.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
If you’ve had any issues with copyright over the past few years, whether you are on YouTube, Facebook or even operating your own website, it’s probable that your issue didn’t start with a human, but with a bot. According to YouTube, their automated Content ID system handles over 98% of copyright issues on the site. Similar bots monitor Facebook and Instagram.
Plagiarism Today
DECEMBER 6, 2021
Last week, five major education publishers filed a lawsuit against Shopify alleging that the ecommerce service provider has enabled rampant commercial textbook piracy on its platform. According to the publishers, which include Macmillan Learning, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, McGraw Hill and Pearson Education, they have sent more than 32,000 takedown notices to Shopify over allegations ebook piracy only for the company to throw up roadblocks to getting content removed and have the company fail to
Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 10, 2021
A recent article in Nature highlighted an unusual approach to spotting questionable research papers, the use of “tortured phrases” The article highlights the work of Guillaume Cabanac, a computer scientist at the University of Toulouse, and his colleagues. According to Cabanac, he couldn’t understand why researchers in several articles were using phrases like “Colossal Information” instead of “Big Data” or “Haze Figuring” instead of “Cl
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
As more and more schools and private companies begin using automated plagiarism detection tools, it’s becoming increasingly common for students, authors and journalists to run plagiarism detection software on their work. In fact, many schools are actually encouraging this behavior and giving students access to the same tools they use. The goal of this is to verify that the work is at least largely free of issues and that the author didn’t make any mistakes when penning their latest p
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 7, 2021
On Tuesday, journalist Robert Kolker published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled Who is the Bad Art Friend? The story looked at the ongoing feud between two authors, Dawn Dorland and Sonya Larson. To parse the winding tale into the most condensed version possible, the story begins when Dorland made the decision to donate a kidney to a stranger.
Plagiarism Today
DECEMBER 7, 2021
Yesterday, YouTube published its first every Copyright Transparency Report. With that step, it follows in the footsteps of Google , Facebook , Reddit and other major industry players in publishing such a report. However, YouTube’s first report comes out in a very different context than the others. While it’s interesting to see the amount and kinds of copyright notices other providers see, YouTube has faced far more copyright criticism than those companies.
Plagiarism Today
DECEMBER 14, 2021
The stories have become incredibly common. Last week, it was YouTuber Mark Fitzpatrick, better known as Totally Not Mark, who faced some 150 copyright claims on his channel from Toei Animation. Fitzpatrick, a prolific reviewer of anime, had gone from running a successful channel reviewing anime to, according to his video, finding himself without revenue and facing the loss of three years of his work.
Plagiarism Today
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. . This month, Newton is at it again and recently published an updated article that looks at the latest quarterly Widely Viewed Content Report. The findings, to put it mildly are not shocking.
Plagiarism Today
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. After that, in January 2021, now-former Rochester Public School District superintendent Michael Muñoz faced multiple allegations of plagiarism related to his job.
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.” Prado was talking about the “fast fashion” brand Shein. The wildly popular brand is famed for its imitations of popular, luxury items at bargain-basement prices.
Plagiarism Today
JULY 29, 2021
On Tuesday, the Stanford Law School announced that it was launching a new GitHub Developer Rights Fellowship as part of its Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic. The new fellowship is being funded by the code-sharing website GitHub, which is tapping its $1 million Developer Defense Fund to make it happen. The move comes on the heels of some trying times for GitHub when it comes to the DMCA.
Plagiarism Today
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 and covered by Pol Reuter (French language article). According to the report, nearly all the 1999 thesis was plagiarized save a brief introduction and a brief conclusion that appears to be original.
Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 9, 2021
Last week, Twitter user @KokomRoily began to feel a creeping sense of déjà vu as they were reading a novel by prolific erotic romance author Romilly King. According to KokomRoily, the book felt familiar after reading the first chapter and, by the second they, “felt sure I could tell what was going to happen next.” 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 foru
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Back in August, Facebook released its “ Widely Viewed Content Report ” that attempted to showcase the type of content that was popular on the service. It included a list of the 20 most viewed posts during the second quarter of 2021, each of which received between 43.6 million and 85 million views. The goal of the report was to both highlight the most popular content on Facebook and to deflect some of the attention Facebook has been getting regarding misinformation that spreads wildly
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
Streamlabs, a company that provides software that enables livestreaming, has long been a somewhat controversial figure in the streaming marketplace. Their main product, Streamlabs OBS (often abbreviated to SLOBS) is built on top of the open-source application OBS it’s been accused of creating confusion by using such a similar name for a commercial product.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
In September last year, UK comedian Kae Kurd took to the stage on Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club to perform a short routine in front of a national audience. As part of that routine , Kurd told a joke about a smart refrigerator that was texting and annoying him while he was out with his friends. That particular joke caught the attention of another UK comedian, Darius Davies, who felt that the joke was very similar to his work.
Plagiarism Today
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?”. It’s easy to see why it’s a question. Anecdotally, it feels like plagiarism stories are becoming much more common. Just over the sixteen years I’ve been writing for this site, there’s been a marked increase in the number of news stories about plagiarism and the amount of interest in the topic.
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 26, 2021
As we’ve discussed in the past , copyright has played an oddly oversized role in our modern Halloween festivities. Whether it’s establishing the modern zombie formula , essentially re-copyrighting Frankenstein’s Monster or nearly killing off one of the most iconic vampires , Halloween and copyright have a long and controversial history together. However, one of the areas that is generally less talked about is copyright’s impact on Halloween costumes.
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