Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

First off today, Joe Tidy at the BBC reports that the City of London Police have arrested three people and shuttered the website of a group that was running an unauthorized clone of Club Penguin, the Disney social media site/game that shuttered in 2017. The post 3 Count: Clubbed Penguin appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

First off today, Diane Haithman at TheWrap reports that filmmakers Spike Lee and Nate Parker have been sued for copyright infringement over allegations that their 2019 Film American Skin is an infringement of an earlier screenplay. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

First off today, Dominc Patten at Dedline reports that Paramount has failed in an early bid to get the lawsuit over Top Gun: Maverick dismissed as the judge ruled that such a dismissal at this point would be premature. As part of his reelection campaign, he used the meme on various social media platforms, prompting Laney to file the lawsuit.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that Miley Cyrus has settled a lawsuit filed by photographer Robert Barbera over a photograph that Barbera took of Cyrus. Barbera filed the lawsuit, alleging that Cyrus posted a photo he took on her various social media presences.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Next up today, Naledi de Wee at The South African reports that local actress Ntando Duma is being sued by the celebrity photography agency Pixel Kollective after she allegedly failed to credit the agency when using their work as part of a social media campaign. The lawsuit is seeking R200,000 ($13,027) in damages from Duma.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 14, 2023

January: The year kicked off in Tanzania with the news that the Parliamentary Standing Committee in Tanzania received a report from the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sports addressing its efforts to review and improve the loopholes found in the Copyright Licensing and Rights to Benefit from Re-Sale Regulations, 2022.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Unique expertise on code too; code is different from photos, music, videos; some of the most valuable code on GitHub is licensed openly. Remediation not removal is often the goal—changes to the code rather than removing often resolves the problem, e.g. addressing violation of open source license by adding attribution etc.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 14, 2021

First off today, Reuters reports that a lawsuit accusing Taylor Swift of copyright infringement in her 2014 hit single Shake it Off has been allowed to move ahead, setting the stage for a possible trial. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 4, 2022

First off today, Preezy Brown at Vibe reports that Damon Dash has been ordered to pay over $800,000 in damages over the movie Dear Frank and allegations that Dash was attempting to shop the film around without the permission of the rightsholders. The post 3 Count: Dear Frank appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

But there weren’t reported lawsuits against Bollywood films. There’s no record of the judgment but there is contemporaneous reporting. Cross-cultural plagiarism: adaptation of a film to a different cultural context. Now, Bollywood copies Hollywood, but they use licenses—how does that compare?

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AUGUST 24, 2022

First off today, Josh Dickey at The Wrap reports that comedian George Lopez has added his name to the list of comics targeting Pandora over allegations that the streaming service did not pay royalties for the written material their recorded routines are based from. The post 3 Count: And One More… appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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