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Music companies are increasingly targeting businesses who use their music on socialmedia. The post The Battle Over Music in SocialMedia Videos appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Here's what you need to know.
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. Audi, for its part, blamed the plagiarism on a “lack of supervision and lax review.” The Challenge of Cross-MediaPlagiarism Detection.
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?
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. A New Framework.
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. When we look at the reasons that students commit plagiarism , one of the main causes that comes up is fear. What has changed is the internet and the rise of socialmedia.
With that returns old plagiarism allegations made new again. The post Jay Shetty and Boomerang Plagiarism Allegations appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Influencer Jay Shetty is facing allegations that he falsified much of his past.
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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First off today, Ryan Naumann at Radar Online reports that photographer Al Pereira has filed a lawsuit against the rapper Nas claiming copyright infringement over a post on socialmedia. The post 3 Count: iTunes DRM appeared first on Plagiarism Today. 2: Banilla Games Sues Copyright Infringers.
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For those who missed it, author Jumi Bello published an essay with the goal of explaining why her upcoming book was cancelled for plagiarism. However, that essay contained parts that were plagiarized (albeit with heavy rewriting) from a 2011 post on this site. This is an area where copyright and plagiarism do not overlap.
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Much of the language was written well before widespread adoption of socialmedia, and much of that language was vague even then. However, it arrives at a very significant intersection, one that includes the largest socialmedia platform in the world and an ongoing push for DMCA reform.
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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 socialmedia site/game that shuttered in 2017. The post 3 Count: Clubbed Penguin appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
They go as far as to call for people to change their mindset about socialmedia before making the jump. The basic idea behind Mastodon is to create a decentralized social networking platform that no one entity control. The post The Copyright Challenge with Mastodon appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Finally today, Kale Williams at The Oregonian reports that two Portland-based photographers have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against conservative author Andy Ngo alleging that Ngo took videos they recorded and uploaded them to his socialmedia accounts without permission.
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2: Rapper Nonini Goes After SocialMedia Influencer in Legal Battle. Next up today, Amos Robi at Pule reports that, in Kenya, musician Hubert Mbuku Nakitare (Nonini) has accused a local media influencer of unlawfully using one of his song as part of an advertisement for an electronics manufacturer.
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When it comes to promoting, marketing, and advertising, socialmedia is one of the most effective and powerful ways. Content creators and socialmedia influencers work sincerely to build their reputation for expertise in specific industries, products, and topics.
However, it’s doing so in a way that is unique to any socialmedia platform that came before it. The post TikTok Announces New Video Citation Tools appeared first on Plagiarism Today. This move puts TikTok in an unusual position. The company is clearly trying to steer its user base toward normalizing attribution.
“Given the quantity of information contained in the repository, the likelihood that ChatGPT would output plagiarized content from one of plaintiffs’ articles seems remote.” Let me know in the comments below or @copyrightlately on socialmedia. In the meantime, here’s a copy of Raw Story Media, Inc.
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