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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

Plagiarism Today

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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Audi and the Challenge of Cross-Media Plagiarism Detection

Plagiarism Today

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-Media Plagiarism Detection.

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Why Plagiarism Thrives on Facebook

Plagiarism Today

However, Casey Newton at The Verge noticed something else askew with the top posts: Nearly all of them were plagiarized. Then are those 15 posts actually plagiarism or just people using Facebook how they’re expected to use it? When it comes to plagiarism, we often tend to think of it in terms of a plagiarist and a victim.

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17 Copyright and/or Plagiarism Stories for Halloween

Plagiarism Today

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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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”. For twelve continuous weeks, it topped the Billboard 100 chart in the USA.

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The Bizarre Copyright Battle Over Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Plagiarism Today

Would-be plaintiffs feeling emboldened after the Blurred Lines verdict in 2015 and new technology that makes detecting both samples and similarities easier have been pointed at and likely have contributed. If Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious can face a copyright infringement lawsuit, almost any song can.

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3 Count: Pop Trio

Plagiarism Today

First off today, Bill Donahue at Billboard reports that pop musician Dua Lipa has been hit with a second lawsuit over her hit song Levitating , as a pair of different accusers have accused her of copyright infringement. The post 3 Count: Pop Trio appeared first on Plagiarism Today. This news lawsuit was filed by songwriters L.

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