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5 Spooky Articles About Copyright and Halloween

Plagiarism Today

In 2019, it was due to road work on my street and both 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. When the film was released, the print was missing a copyright notice. Under the laws at the time, this mean that it didn’t have copyright protection. That copy was preserved and is the basis for all copies of the film we have today.

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The Streamlabs (SLOBS) Plagiarism Scandal

Plagiarism Today

It was hot on the heels of a very different kind of copying scandal, one that involved Streamlabs announcing the launch of a new product using content copied and pasted from one of their biggest competitors. Hey, can I copy your homework? ? Yeah, just change it up a bit so it’s not obvious you copied. This is our fault.

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Facebook’s Plagiarism Problems Are Deeper Than You Realize

Plagiarism Today

As part of their series The Facebook Files , which is an examination of leaked internal documents from the company, the paper published a scathing review of the company’s practices surrounding copied content. The first was in August 2020, shortly after this problem began. It has an addiction to copied content. Bottom Line.

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Reddit Banned 2,625 Subreddits For Excessive Copyright Infringement in 2021

TorrentFreak

In common with the vast majority of large companies based in the US, Reddit has to follow the requirements of the DMCA which means that when it receives a valid copyright notice, it must comply by taking the identified content down. “In 2021, Reddit received 177,450 copyright notices reporting 920,672 pieces of content.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

Copyright Office, “Online content is considered published if the copyright owner authorizes the end user to retain copies of the content or further distribute the content.”. Their pages contained a pair of copyright notices that read, “Nothing on this page may be copied or reproduced without explicit permission.”

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Movie Companies Sue Lawyer in Dispute Over Piracy Settlement Cash

TorrentFreak

” This change was communicated to the defendants on December 7, 2020, the complaint notes, adding that all future payments should’ve been made to the new agent. For their part, the defendants view the situation quite differently. In common with the prior agent, the new agent’s name isn’t identified at this point.

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Copyright Ownership in State Board Textbooks: Impediments to Accessibility

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Printed copies, adaptations or publications with new material would only widen the dissemination of these works. Smartphone ownership levels among rural households with school going children have doubled to 62% in 2020 from 36% in 2018. This shows how digitising access to textbooks can improve accessibility.

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