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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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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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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. 1: How a Copyright Mistake Created the Modern Zombie. When the film was released, the print was missing a copyright notice. 2: Dracula vs. Nosferatu: A True Copyright Horror Story.

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3 Count: Grand Theft Copyright

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1: Ex-White House Photographer Sued for Copyright Over His Own Photo: ‘You Can’t Make This Up’. According to the notice, the photo rights group WENN holds the rights to the image and accused Souza of infringing their copyright. 2: Bungie’s Copyright Infringement Claims Against AimJunkies ‘Insiders’ Can Continue.

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3 Count: Truth Settles

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1: Lizzo Settles Truth Hurts Copyright Battle with Former Collaborators. The lawsuit was filed by Anastas “Pupa Nas-T” Hackett, who claims that the defendants willfully copied his song Work without a license or attribution. The post 3 Count: Truth Settles appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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3 Count: Mortal Kopyright

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1: Marjorie Taylor Greene Promo Video Removed From Twitter After Dr. Dre’s Copyright Complaint. House Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was locked out of her Twitter account following a copyright complaint filed by Dr. Dre over a video Greene posted. The post 3 Count: Mortal Kopyright appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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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?”. In a similar question at 17:05 in the same video, another user asked, “Why Google is not taking action on copy or spun web stories?