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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. The goal was to understand the meaning of the images, as well as the text contained within them, to understand if the concepts and ideas were similar to other published works.

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Plagiarism as a Social Norm

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Why is it acceptable for Carolyn Keene to be a pseudonym for over a dozen authors penning Nancy Drew stories, but not ok for Cristiane Serruya to use ghostwriters when producing books with her name (outside the fact the books were plagiarized from other sources). The answer is that plagiarism is complicated. A New Framework.

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Why it is Never the Right Time to Tackle Plagiarism

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Yesterday, Alice Nuttall published a piece on Book Riot that asks a simple question: Why is publishing plagiarism still possible? She believes that publishing is so vast, that there would be no way to house a database with all the needed info. It’s a simple enough question. A Vicious Cycle.

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Peter Gleeson Leaves News Corp Following Plagiarism Scandal

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In Australia, long-time conservative commentator Peter Gleeson has left News Corp following a series of plagiarism allegations. . The Courier-Mail quickly appended a stern editor’s note to the piece and Gleeson himself wrote an apology letter, where he said that the plagiarism was not a “deliberate act.”.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

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That question is whether the descriptions were “published” or “unpublished” according to the law when they were put on FDN’s website. Also in 2018, FDN filed the original complaint, targeting both Amazon and CCA, alleging that they both breached contracts and committed copyright infringement. According to the U.S. Bottom Line.

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3 Count: Patchwork Lawsuit

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However, HP argues that many of the servers involved predate Oracle’s current contract system, making the patches legal. 3: Marvel Confirms Conan the Barbarian is Leaving the Publisher. Finally today, Adam Barnhardt at Comicbook.com reports that Marvel Comics is losing the publishing rights to the character Conan the Barbarian.

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3 Count: Less Than Routine

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2: Kairosoft, the Beloved Mobile Tycoon Game Developer, Openly Accuses its Chinese Publisher of Copyright Infringement and Contract Violation. The two companies signed an agreement in 2017 that gave Beijing Shi Jun publishing rights for Kairosoft games in China. 3: Facebook Signs Copyright Agreement with Some French Publishers.