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Snopes Co-Founder and CEO Admits to Plagiarizing Dozens of Articles

Plagiarism Today

On Friday, Buzzfeed published an article that highlights the widespread and long-running plagiarism of Snopes CEO and co-founder David Mikkelson. Mikkelson, for his part, has admitted to the plagiarism and has been suspended from his editorial duties at the site. More Than Just Plagiarism.

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

Patently-O

2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. HLG ultimately filed suit for copyright infringement.

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Asghar Farhadi’s High-Stakes Plagiarism Battle

Plagiarism Today

However, as per The Hollywood Reporter, he now finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes plagiarism battle. The lawsuit was filed by Azadeh Masihzadeh who, according to the lawsuit, was a student of Farhadi in 2014. But this isn’t solely a case about copyright infringement, it’s also a case about ethics and honesty. ??Masihzadeh

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Ed Sheeran’s Copyright Infringement Battles

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

Looking back, his career trajectory has been laced with a healthy amount of plagiarism allegations by other artists. Three of the most prominent accusations of plagiarism are with regard to his songs “Photograph”, “Thinking Out Loud”, and “Shape of You”. When it was released in the year 2017, it became an instant global sensation.

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3 Count: Server Tested

Plagiarism Today

1: Manhattan Judge Rejects ‘Server Test’ for Internet Copyright Infringement. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff has issued a controversial ruling denying the “server test” of copyright law and ruling that embedding images can be an infringement of copyright law. ” As such, Warner Bros.,

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3 Count: 10,000 Hours

Plagiarism Today

1: Dan + Shay, Justin Bieber Sued for ‘10,000 Hours’ Copyright Infringement. First off today, Mathew Lemkuehler at The Tennessean reports that a new lawsuit claims the song 10,000 Hours , performed by Dan + Shay and Justin Bieber, is a copyright infringement of an earlier work.

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3 Count: Happiest Marshmello

Plagiarism Today

The law3suit was filed by a producer named Arty that claimed Happier was an infringement of his 2014 remix of OneRepublic’s I Lived. However, a federal judge dismissed the case last year, citing that Arty lacked a copyright interest in the musical composition he was claiming Marhsmellow infringed.