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Google Accuses Regulators of Plagiarism

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Google is now appealing that decision and, as part of their defense, allege that the CCI plagiarized parts of the EU ruling , including using evidence that was not introduced into the Indian proceedings. According to Google, there were at least 50 instances of copying, some of which were “word-for-word”. Copy and Paste Roundup.

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3 Count: Plagiarism Again

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2: Riot Games sues Mobile Legends: Bang Bang for Plagiarism—Again. Next up today, Eva Martinello at Dot Esports reports that Riot Games has filed a lawsuit against Shanghai-based Moonton Games alleging that Moonton has copied assets from them when making the game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

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2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible. Winston & Strawn , 23-cv-11193 (S.D.N.Y.

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Erotic Romance Author Accused of Plagiarism from Fan Fiction

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” The reason was that, the book in question, Paid to Kneel , was plagiarized from an earlier work by a user named Blue_King that was posted on a Supernatural fan fiction forum. After some digging, KokomRoilly found multiple lengthy passages of verbatim copying and posted highlighted passages on their Twitter account.

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DeivanArt Expanding System for Detecting Copied Images

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This came at a time that copyright infringing NFTs were so rampant that some marketplaces decided to halt sales and the largest NFT marketplace, OpenSea, admitted that “Over 80%” of the NFTs minted for free were either fake, plagiarized or otherwise legally dubious. At least not yet.

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My Concerns with the ‘Can’t Be Evil’ NFT Licenses

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Last month, a study published by The Galaxy examined the top 25 most valuable NFT projects and found that, despite many understanding that NFTs transferred either the copyright or the license in the original work, only 1 in 25 of those projects even attempted to do as such. Understanding the “Can’t Be Evil” Licenses.

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3 Count: Countdown

Plagiarism Today

The case was filed by artist Sami Chokri, who accuses Sheeran of copying his hit song Shape of You from his earlier track Oh Why. Specifically, they accuse the musician of copying a key hook from their song, which made the two works, in their mind, substantially similar under the law.