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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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Mr Justice Zacaroli finds manufacturing software copyright infringed and confidence breached in ex-employee fight

The IPKat

PQ became aware of InSPC v1 when it was promoted in demo form by CyberMetrics in the Summer 2017. Mr Aughton denied this and said that the copyright in ProSPC belonged to him because it was written as a hobby project outside his employment and, in any event, he did not copy ProSPC by any means (automatic translation or otherwise).

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Gary Bowser: How a 1980s Hacker Became Nintendo’s Nemesis Decades Later

TorrentFreak

“Because of my advanced skills in designing hardware and coding on early computers, I quickly found out that working on modchips was basically just good old low-level coding. And when George Hotz , aka Geohot, posted a copy of the PlayStation 3’s private key online, traffic to game hacking sites blew up.

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Can We Patent An Idea That Made To Public?

Intepat

Organizing demos and pilot projects with investors. Sometimes, there are chances for people in the same field to figure out how to design or implement it based on your idea. This would give you a prior filing date and also protect your idea from being copied. The patent office can also reject the idea if it is too obvious.