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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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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

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It deals with whether Amazon and/or CCA infringed FDN’s copyrights by scraping descriptions from their website for use as part of Amazon’s product listings. That question is whether the descriptions were “published” or “unpublished” according to the law when they were put on FDN’s website. According to the U.S. Bottom Line.

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3 Count: It’s Not Complicated

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However, though most agreed the two routines appeared to be similar, a judge has dismissed Hanagami’s lawsuit claiming that the two works are not similar enough to be a copyright infringement. 2: YouTube Holds Licenses For Copyright Lawsuit Plaintiff’s “Entire Back Catalog”.

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3 Count: Frequent Flyer

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Next up today, Rhiannon Bevan at TheGamer reports that Nintendo has filed a takedown notice against a video of a fan-created first-person shooter that was based on the Pokemon franchise. The video was uploaded by Twitter user @Dragon_GameDev2 who published it to both Twitter and Twitch as a way to announce the new project.