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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. . To be clear, the DMCA does not prohibit Facebook from trying to block or restrict plagiarized content from becoming popular.

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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?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 That question is whether the descriptions were “published” or “unpublished” according to the law when they were put on FDN’s website. appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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3 Count: Mortal Kopyright

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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. by the musician and, according to a copyright notice and a published cease and desist letter, it was used without permission.

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3 Count: One More Thing…

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Z-Library was recently targeted in complaints to the United States Trade Representative saying that it is “killing” efforts by publishers to monetize their books as their products would often appear on the site within hours of publication. 3: Apple’s Copyright Claims Ripped Down a Fan’s Archival WWDC YouTube channel.

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7 Takeaways from YouTube’s Copyright Transparency Report

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Yesterday, YouTube published its first every Copyright Transparency Report. With that step, it follows in the footsteps of Google , Facebook , Reddit and other major industry players in publishing such a report. According to YouTube, they receive copyright notices from four different sources.

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3 Count: It’s Not Complicated

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Other lawsuits have featured artists including 2 Milly, Alfonso Riberio and the “Orange Shirt Kid” However, many of those lawsuits were dropped in 2019 due to a lack of copyright registration. 2: YouTube Holds Licenses For Copyright Lawsuit Plaintiff’s “Entire Back Catalog”.

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3 Count: Calling Duty

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First off today, Otto Kratky at GameSpot reports that video game publisher Activision has filed yet another lawsuit against an alleged cheat distributor, this one citing violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). 3: Griselda Records Calls Out WWE Over Copyright Takedowns on Westside Gunn Songs.

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