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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. . To be clear, the DMCA does not prohibit Facebook from trying to block or restrict plagiarized content from becoming popular.

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3 Count: Finally Settled

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1: Cox Settles Dispute with BMG, Rightscorp Over Copyright Notices. First off today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Cox Communications has settled its dispute with BMG and Rightscorp over allegedly false Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) filed by Rightscorp on BMG’s behalf.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

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In 2015, FDN filed a DMCA takedown notice, but Amazon did not take down the work in question. Copyright Office is required before a lawsuit can be filed, and a timely one is needed to obtain maximum damages from the courts. appeared first on Plagiarism Today. But this is where FDN introduces a new wrinkle.