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The Growth of AI in Plagiarism Detection

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Earlier today, the Israeli-based plagiarism detection service Copyleaks announced a new $6 million round of funding to help them further develop their product. In 2018, Turnitin launched their Authorship Investigation tool , which aimed to help teachers detect when a paper was not written by the same person.

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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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The James Corden Plagiarism Controversy

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From a plagiarism standpoint, this has been a very bad week for comedian and host of The Late Late Show, James Corden. On Tuesday, accusations were leveled against Corden that he had retold a joke originally performed by Ricky Gervais in 2018. I doubt he would knowingly just copy such a famous stand up routine word for word like that.

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3 Count: Plagiarism Again

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2: Riot Games sues Mobile Legends: Bang Bang for Plagiarism—Again. Next up today, Eva Martinello at Dot Esports reports that Riot Games has filed a lawsuit against Shanghai-based Moonton Games alleging that Moonton has copied assets from them when making the game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. million settlement in 2018.

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Google Accuses Regulators of Plagiarism

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Back in 2018, that resulted in the European Commission handing down a 4.1-billion-euro Google is now appealing that decision and, as part of their defense, allege that the CCI plagiarized parts of the EU ruling , including using evidence that was not introduced into the Indian proceedings. Copy and Paste Roundup.

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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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Did Fortnite Plagiarize Among Us?

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Though originally released in 2018, Among Us became wildly popular during the pandemic, with streamers and gamers alike discovering it and enjoying both the cartoonish art style and the intrigue of trying to suss out who the imposters are. A Long History of Copying. Did they go too far when pulling from Among Us for Imposters?