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A Frustrating Pagan Plagiarism Scandal

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Earlier this month, Pagan author Mat Auryn took to Twitter to highlight what he said was a very clear case of verbatim plagiarism of his work. I discovered that this book has completely plagiarized Psychic Witch in almost its entirety. The plagiarism, to put it modestly, was both flagrant and obvious.

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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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Retroactive Credit and the Future of Music Plagiarism

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However, this led Joe Vitagliano at American Songwriter to ask a simple question: Is Retroactive Credit The New Way To Get Away With Plagiarism? However, Vitagliano argues that Rodrigo is a unique case as she has only released one album and has already faced allegations of plagiarism both in two of her songs and her album’s cover.

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How a Plagiarism Scandal Could Change the World of Sports Concussions

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At the time, McCrory was facing allegations of plagiarism in a letter that he published while he was an editor at the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM). McCrory, for his part, admitted to the plagiarism but said that it was an isolated incident caused by sending the wrong draft to be published. However, that was not the case.

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The Tainted Legacy of Paul McCrory

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Five of the retractions were for plagiarism, three were for duplicative publication and another one was for misrepresenting a cited reference. However, that began to unravel in March, when researcher Steve Haake published an op-ed in Retraction Watch, accusing McCrory of plagiarizing his earlier work.

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3 Count: Texas Chainsaw Lawsuit

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Vortex claims that they reached out in March 2016, but were strongly rebuffed, setting up this lawsuit. 3: ‘Servant’ Plagiarism Trial Against Apple Will Proceed with a Full Jury. The post 3 Count: Texas Chainsaw Lawsuit appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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Why Teachers Are Worried About AI

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With the increase in contract cheating, tools that detect plagiarism have attempted to adapt. Around the same time, Unicheck was working on a similar tool dubbed Emma and, earlier this year, Copyleaks secured funding to AI-powered plagiarism detection service. In 2018 Turnitin launched their Authorship Investigation Tool. Bottom Line.