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5 Warning Signs a Copyright Notice May Be False

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Hosts often receive massive numbers of copyright notices, few of which turn out to be false. The post 5 Warning Signs a Copyright Notice May Be False appeared first on Plagiarism Today. Still, it's important to spot the fakes.

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5 Spooky Articles About Copyright and Halloween

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But, before I go, I wanted to leave you with five tales of how copyright has shaped Halloween that I’ve written over the years. If you want a more complete list of the Halloween-related articles that have been featured on this site, check out this post from October 2021. 1: How a Copyright Mistake Created the Modern Zombie.

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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. . This was in part because the company feared running afoul of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

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The Streamlabs (SLOBS) Plagiarism Scandal

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Over at CopyByte , one of my main jobs is removing plagiarized marketing copy such as what Streamlabs had on its site. This is usually done with a copyright notice, but, in some cases, is done by working directly with the site that uploaded the content. Accident or Not, a Problem Remains. Bottom Line.

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7 Takeaways from YouTube’s Copyright Transparency Report

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Yesterday, YouTube published its first every Copyright Transparency Report. While it’s interesting to see the amount and kinds of copyright notices other providers see, YouTube has faced far more copyright criticism than those companies. So, what is in YouTube’s inaugural Copyright Transparency Report?

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Google Addresses Scraped and Spun Content

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The first question, at 9:19 in the video, asks, “How should content creators respond to sites that use AI to plagiarize the content, modify it, and then outrank them in search results?”. Article spinning, is a tool that automatically rewrites articles by replacing key words with synonyms.

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3 Count: Polar Thawing

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1: Sinclair, Photographer Resolve Copyright Dispute Over Polar Bear Video. After that, several affiliate sites owned by Sinclair embedded the video into news articles, prompting Nicklen to sue. 2: Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna and Johanna Fateman Sue Over “Deceptacon” Copyright Infringement Accusation.