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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

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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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17 Copyright and/or Plagiarism Stories for Halloween

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However, that is just the latest in a decade-long history of discussing copyright, plagiarism and other authorship issues as they pertain to Halloween and horror. So, this year we’re going to take a look back at the various tales of copyright infringement and/or plagiarism that we’ve looked at over the years.

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Asghar Farhadi’s High-Stakes Plagiarism Battle

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However, as per The Hollywood Reporter, he now finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes plagiarism battle. Finally, another student has come forward and accused Farhadi of doing something similar when they were at a similar workshop in 2011. In the end, I don’t fully understand the copyright element of this case.

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Some Final Thoughts on the Jumi Bello Case

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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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3 Count: ACTing Fast

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According to the lawsuit, ACT and WIN were partners for nearly 15 years before their partnership ended in 2011. The post 3 Count: ACTing Fast appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Specifically, the two companies created and produced work related to various testing needs and targeted state contracts.

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Google Addresses Scraped and Spun Content

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The first question, at 9:19 in the video, asks, “How should content creators respond to sites that use AI to plagiarize the content, modify it, and then outrank them in search results?”. The post Google Addresses Scraped and Spun Content appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Seemingly overnight, scraping and spinning took a backseat.

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The Not-Quite-So Legal Future for Web Scraping

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This form of web scraping began to fall out of favor in 2011 following a series of Google search updates that de-prioritized scraped websites. In fact, the ruling leaves open a variety of approached LinkedIn could take, including copyright infringement , in particular violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

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