Plagiarism Today

MAY 16, 2022

First off today, Massimo Capizza at the National Law Review reports that the Supreme Court of the United States has denied certiorari in a case over the 2003 Josh Groban song You Raise Me Up , leaving a circuit split in place over how to determine substantial similarity between two works. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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Kashishipr

MAY 25, 2021

Blogging and Fair Use. The doctrine of fair use bears substantial importance for blogs since the question of plagiarism may sprout up at regular intervals. However, quoting facts word-to-word, paragraph after paragraph, won’t be construed as constituting fair use. Trademarking a Blog.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. One of the most requested tool from volunteers is a better tool to detect plagiarism. Rogers: we have a similar thing at Wikimedia.

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