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Audi and the Challenge of Cross-Media Plagiarism Detection

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Over the weekend, the German carmaker Audi became the center of a massive plagiarism controversy as a new video campaign was accused of ripping off content from a prominent Chinese video blogger. Instead, it was published in 2021 on Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok, by a prominent video blogger that uses the name Beida Mange.

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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.

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The Impact of the Internet on Plagiarism

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When people learn what I do for a living, one of the first questions I am usually asked is, “Has the internet made plagiarism much worse?”. Anecdotally, it feels like plagiarism stories are becoming much more common. Obviously, it’s had an impact on plagiarism, but that raises a question: How did the web change plagiarism?

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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. . However, Newton’s report comes as the Wall Street Journal is also examining Facebook’s efforts to block plagiarized and pirated content.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?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That question is whether the descriptions were “published” or “unpublished” according to the law when they were put on FDN’s website. However, applying terms like “published” and “unpublished” to a website is complicated. That seems to be a pretty clear indication that these pages were not published, as no distribution was intended.

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3 Count: Less Than Routine

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They allege that American Skin copies elements from their 2017 screenplay, A Routine Stop. 2: Kairosoft, the Beloved Mobile Tycoon Game Developer, Openly Accuses its Chinese Publisher of Copyright Infringement and Contract Violation. 3: Facebook Signs Copyright Agreement with Some French Publishers.

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Parsing the Plagiarism of the Bad Art Friend

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On Tuesday, journalist Robert Kolker published an article in the New York Times Magazine entitled Who is the Bad Art Friend? This prompted Dorland to first report the alleged plagiarism to a wide variety of groups and worked on getting the story pulled while working through lawyers to demand financial compensation.