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Mojang Targets Repositories of Browser-Based Minecraft Copy ‘Eaglercraft’

TorrentFreak

In the years following its first release in 2011, Minecraft captured a truly massive audience. With more than 238 million copies sold, it’s also the best-selling video game in history, a reign that looks set to continue. All repositories are reportedly linked to copies of Eaglercraft.

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Lawyer Sanctioned for Plagiarizing Opposing Counsel

Plagiarism Today

On one hand, unattributed copying is rampant, widely accepted and even necessary. Much of what lawyers write have only one or two ways that they can correctly be written, thus it’s common to copy the works of others, especially from one’s own firm or their past work. While cases like this one are rare, they do happen.

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Brit Cops To Pirating DVDs For Global Hacking Syndicate

IP Law 360

A British hacker copped to cracking the copyright protections on nearly every major motion picture released on disc between 2011 and early 2020 and distributing copies across an online piracy syndicate that caused Hollywood to lose tens of millions of dollars, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.

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Unclear student guide not enough to constitute authorisation to use short film still

The IPKat

Facts Mr T trained as an editor at a film and audiovisual school run by ECAR CAMPUS from 2009 to 2011. In its 2010/2011 student guide, the school's internal regulations stated that “ students grant their school permission to use their work exclusively for educational and non-commercial purposes, to promote the school to the general public ”.

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3 Count: Unicolors Redux

Plagiarism Today

The lawsuit was filed by Unicolors, which accused H&M of infringing a 2011 design that they created as part of a 2015 one H&M sold in their stores and online. According to LDC, Sheraton copied the design of the rooms at their five-start hotel, Palais de Chine.

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3 Count: Swimsuit Edition

Plagiarism Today

The three worked with a company named Construction Technologies and, as part of their work, they would activate unlicensed copies of software for customers by using either cracking programs or key generators to remove license restrictions.

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Google Answers Question About Plagiarized Content, Kind Of

Plagiarism Today

However, in February 2011, Google launched its “Panda” update , which heavily targeted content farms, including sites that were engaging in scraping. This has made copied content something of a sore spot with many Google watchers. Why SEO Practitioners Cares About Copied Content.