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JANUARY 2, 2024

Law firm sues competitor over copied brief, pirate site closure was exaggerated, and a horror game based on Steamboat Willie is announced. The post 3 Count: Scary Mouse appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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JANUARY 18, 2022

million ($3 million) acquiring a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune. With previous ones selling for around €25,000 ($28,000), their copy cost more than 100 times the going rate. Many copies of the book are already easy to access just through a simple search. Last year, the group spent €2.66

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JULY 10, 2024

Nexon, developers of The First Descendent, are accused of copying icons from Destiny 2. However, the story is more complicated. The post Copyright, Trademark and Plagiarism in Icons appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Through our modern lens, this kind of copying can seem insane. Ethically, this type of copying would be seen as plagiarism and the creators would be treated accordingly, especially given that some of the images were traced. These days, comic artists and comic fans do not tolerate this kind of copying. Where We Are Today.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

On one hand, unattributed copying is rampant, widely accepted and even necessary. Much of what lawyers write have only one or two ways that they can correctly be written, thus it’s common to copy the works of others, especially from one’s own firm or their past work. While cases like this one are rare, they do happen.

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JANUARY 24, 2024

In September, Games Workshop filed 12 claims against a user offering copied 3D models online. Now the user is finally shutting down. The post Printed Minis and the Power of the Copyright Claims Board appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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JUNE 21, 2022

The similarities included both scenes and ideas that were rewritten, as well as lengthy passages of text that were copied either verbatim or near-verbatim. Hughes, for his part, apologized for the copying. He claimed that it didn’t matter if he copied, it mattered if he did something new and meaningful with it.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Zack Nelson, the man behind JerryRigEverything, claims that Casetify copied his and dbrand's work. And he has significant proof. The post Understanding The JerryRigEverything/Casetify Copyright Battle appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Authors have been reporting that Amazon has been pulling their books because of pirated copies that allegedly breaking an exclusivity clause. The post How Amazon is Punishing Victims of Piracy appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

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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MAY 3, 2023

However, when he got his copy, he saw something was removed. Fantasy artist Jeff Easley recently created a print for the upcoming D&D film. The post The Case of the D&D Poster and the Missing Signature appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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APRIL 25, 2023

TikToker and Singaporean essay tutor Brooke Lim is facing allegations of plagiarism after her most recent essay featured copied text. The post Celebrity TikTok Essay Expert Accused of Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

They further claimed that the Disney songwriters, Richard and Robert Sherman, gained access to their version of the song either from a club where Parker used to perform at , including their version of the song, or via a copy they sent to Disney. As with most such cases, their belief that they were copied is, most likely, completely genuine.

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APRIL 19, 2022

Though the company provides traditional copy-and-paste plagiarism detection, the service aims to detect the “voice” of the author and the meaning of their text, hunting for sources that may match it too closely, even if the text itself isn’t duplicated. The Need for Smart Plagiarism Detection. Expanding the Usefulness. Bottom Line.

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AUGUST 31, 2022

Any time you do copy and paste outside material into your writing, quote and cite it immediately. Contrary to what many believe, plagiarism doesn’t just cover the copying of words without attribution. Copying ideas, concepts and facts without citation can, just as easily, lead to allegations of plagiarism.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Publications are certainly free to copy the releases wholesale, and some do, but the more typical misuse is copying and pasting text from the press release and mixing it with original content, all the while not acknowledging the source. Image from James Stephanie Sterling’s video. Inevitably, some are going to take shortcuts.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In the lawsuit, Pearson alleges that Chegg, through the use of thousands of freelancers, provides answers to questions found in textbooks it publishes and, in doing so, often copies the question verbatim or with slight paraphrasing. As a result, Pearson is suing Chegg alleging copyright infringement.

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JUNE 2, 2022

According to the right of first sale, rightsholders have the right to sell a physical copy the first time. However, any owner of a legally obtained copy is free to sell, rent or distribute that copy as they see fit as long as no new copies are made.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

Image: Shutterstock There has been lots of ink spilled over the issue of Artificial Intelligence (AI) developers free riding on the backs of creators by copying and ingesting their content without permission to produce AI “created” content, output that sometimes competes directly in the market with the original work.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Gervais took the dispute in stride, saying that it was most likely someone on Corden’s writing team that “’came up with it’ for him” and that it was unlikely he would knowingly copy such a famous routine. . I doubt he would knowingly just copy such a famous stand up routine word for word like that.

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JUNE 8, 2022

However, according to an investigation by The Mercury News , roughly one-fifth of the book was copied from a variety of online sources. Roughly half of the copied paragraphs did not contain footnotes, and none of the paragraphs indicated that the text was quoted. However, I have not been asked about this case as of this writing.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

HathiTrust (which had similar facts as Google ), noting that in both cases the scanning created a searchable database but did not output a copy of the books. However, the output of the GAI is a new image (albeit typically not a copy of the scanned image(s)). The court distinguished the Google Books case and Authors Guild, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

On January 1, 2022, a new law entered into force in the state of Maryland requiring that authors and publishers holding the rights to an e-book title must offer unlimited copies of that title to public libraries in the state at an undetermined “reasonable price” if and when the title is offered to individual consumers.

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JUNE 1, 2022

This has made copied content something of a sore spot with many Google watchers. Why SEO Practitioners Cares About Copied Content. But while it is clear that Google prefers original content, anyone seeking a bright line rule on how much copied content is allowed is, most likely, going to leave disappointed.

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Hugh Stephens Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

district court ruled that San Francisco–based non-profit Internet Archive (IA) infringed the copyright of four international publishing houses when it loaned unlicensed digital copies of … Continue reading "Implications of the U.S. Earlier this year, a U.S. Controlled Digital Lending Decision in Canada Remain Unclear"

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 9, 2022

I put it on the back burner, but eventually sought out a cached copy of the article to read, even if I couldn’t write about it or link to it. Looking at the comparisons, it’s pretty obvious that she copied my words and then rewrote them to fit her style and message. Here’s Why.” However, when I clicked it, I went to an error page.

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AUGUST 11, 2021

Earlier this week, independent fashion designer Bailey Prado took to Instagram to call attention to a different fashion label that, according to her, copied her “whole life.” For example, items that may sell on Prado’s website for up to $300 typical appear as copies on Shein’s app for less than $20.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2022

However, shortly after publication, another journalist, Josh Bavas, took to Twitter to ask why the article copied four paragraphs from a piece that he wrote two years prior. One does not copy and paste whole paragraphs from another source without any attribution or indication of quoting accidentally.

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JULY 6, 2022

Plagiarism detection software is really just copy detection software. Though the tools are getting more advanced at detecting authorship , not just copying and pasting, a lot of the focus in matters of plagiarism is on the text itself. 1: It’s Not Just About Text. However, your work is more than just a collection of words.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Both books are non-fiction examinations of the story that inspired the book Doctor Zhivago, though Pasternak alleges that Prescott copied a significant portion of her selection, structure and arrangement in seven chapters from TSWK. 3: NitroTV Hit with $51m Piracy Damages.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

This prompted Florence Stoker to sue, a case she won handily with an order that all copies of the film be destroyed. However, at least one copy made it to the United States, where the original book was already in public domain. That copy was preserved and is the basis for all copies of the film we have today.

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MAY 25, 2022

In it, she discussed how she copied and pasted the works of others and then rewrote it to, in her mind, make it hers. When copying and pasting heavily into a new work, it can be easy to forget not only what came from where, but what is original versus what needs to be edited. 2: It’s Nearly Impossible to Completely Edit Copied Text.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2022

How was Meyer able to obtain a copy of the unpublished paper? Why was this copying not detected? Specifically, the narrator, after seeking out Lobachevsky’s advice, uses his connections to obtain a copy of a paper before it is published and then beat the real author to the punch. However, questions linger about this case.

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MAY 18, 2022

A variety of services work to find copied images , and many engage in speculative invoicing and litigation as part of their strategy. As such, the risk of copying images is only rising, and it may be a good time to seek out alternatives. To that end, there are ongoing campaigns to find and detect infringing images online.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Letter: Doorland accuses Larson of copying her donor letter and including significant portions of it, in particular in early versions of the story. She took the words that someone else had written, copied them and used them in her story while presenting them as her work. That is, in a word, unacceptable.

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JULY 27, 2021

Konami would have to prove that BTS copied their track, that the copied elements were unique to their track (meaning no prior examples of that beat) and that those elements that were copied qualify for copyright protection and that the use wasn’t a fair use.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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. It has an addiction to copied content. Bottom Line. To put it simply, Facebook has a problem.

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