How AI Can Destroy Local Journalism
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MARCH 10, 2025
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Hugh Stephens Blog
MARCH 10, 2025
Image: Shutterstock.com We all know that local journalism is under extreme pressure. The … Continue reading "How AI Can Destroy Local Journalism"
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
AI is causing a divide in journalism as news organizations work to find boundaries for the use of AI in reporting and licensing their work. The post The Divide in Journalism Over AI appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
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SpicyIP
OCTOBER 22, 2024
We’re pleased to announce that National Law University, Jodhpur’s Journal of Intellectual Property Studies (JIPS) is inviting original, unpublished manuscripts for publication for its upcoming issue (Volume IX, Issue I). The ISSN Number of the Journal is 2583-5297. The ISSN Number of the Journal is 2583-5297.
Plagiarism Today
JULY 13, 2023
A scientist has filed a lawsuit against the journal PLOS One seeking an injunction against an expression of concern on one of her articles. The post Scientist Sues Journal to Block Expression of Concern appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Hugh Stephens Blog
AUGUST 11, 2024
Image: Shutterstock (with AI assist: Note AI misspelling) The sad, slow decline of professional journalism continues.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 25, 2024
When retracting an article for plagiarism, many journals will bend over backwards to avoid saying the p-word. Here's some great examples. The post My Favorite Euphemisms for Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
IP Watchdog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
673, the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA). This morning, the full U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary convened an executive business meeting during which the committee advanced S.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 3, 2022
The retraction was of a letter written by Paul McCrory and published by the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM) in 2005. The issue was made significantly more complicated by the fact that, at the time the letter was published, McCrory was not just a contributor to the journal, but an editor. It could be as simple as the timing.
Plagiarism Today
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
.” In January 2021, the pair submitted it to the International Small Business Journal , a SAGE journal. They then submitted to another journal, The Journal of Entrepreneurship , another SAGE journal, which did the same. Vision is also a SAGE journal. However, questions linger about this case.
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 19, 2023
A French professor is accused of plagiarism in a journal review article. However, he's blaming his ghostwriter for the issue. The post Professor Blames Ghostwriter for Review Plagiarism appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 29, 2022
This access includes individuals or institutions subscribing to the journal or people paying for access to individual articles. For researchers, this means submitting an article to a journal and, if it’s accepted, the journal pays for it to be peer reviewed and then for it to be published. Some Terms to Know.
Plagiarism Today
MAY 24, 2022
All five papers were published in different journals. However, the journals fall under the iProclaim umbrella, an open access group that charges a publication fee. This has led some to believe that the papers were deliberately published in low-quality “predatory” journals to help the duo artificially increase their publication history.
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Press release plagiarism is a tremendous problem in modern journalism , in particular with video games, and, while Sterling was aware of one site that took the bait, there are many others that did so as well. It’s very much a product of modern journalism. This problem is even worse in video game journalism. Bottom Line.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 19, 2023
As concerns over misinformation plague journalism, the Content Authenticity Initiative is a consortium with a potential answer. The post Using Metadata to Spot Misinformation appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 12, 2022
According to Retraction Watch , former prominent concussion researcher Paul McCrory has drawn another 9 transactions as the British Journal of Sports Medicine and its publisher, BMJ, continues their investigation into his library of work. However, the reason McCrory was so well liked by those in power was likely because of his views.
IP Watchdog
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
This is the question the European Parliament addresses for the first time in its Resolution on policy implications of the development of virtual worlds – civil, company commercial and intellectual property law issues, published on October 17, 2024, in the Official Journal of the European Union.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
In this article from the New York Law Journal, Baker Botts’ co-head of the AI practice group Rich Harper breaks down how traditional trade secret laws could apply to rapidly advancing AI tech. With decades of legal development, it’s an essential area where companies will need to protect their innovations – or fend off others doing the same.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 18, 2023
A college professor attempted to block a records request related to journal retractions. However, the court ruled they should be disclosed. The post Professor’s Correspondence Over Retractions Ruled Public Record appeared first on Plagiarism Today.
JD Supra Law
JANUARY 10, 2025
Originally published in the ABA Antitrust Law Journal. In Actavis, the Court held that certain types of so-called reverse paymentspatent litigation settlement payments from brand pharmaceutical manufacturers to generic companies challenging the brands patentmight "sometimes" violate the antitrust laws. By: White & Case LLP
Plagiarism Today
AUGUST 10, 2021
Cabanac went on to find some 860 papers that featured one or more of these tortured phrases, and that 31 of those phrases were published in a single journal: Microprocessors and Microsystems. That journal has already become the subject of a separate investigation by the journal’s publisher, Elsevier.
JD Supra Law
MAY 7, 2025
The opt-in license would allow AI developers to use text-based published workssuch as books, journals, and magazinesfor training, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented. By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 4, 2022
With evidence in hand, on New Year’s Eve, he wrote a letter to the associate editor of the journal, Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, highlighting his findings. Journals are typically trusted to take issues of research integrity seriously. At first, things seemed to be fairly normal. An Incredible Lack of Action. Bottom Line.
Plagiarism Today
MAY 31, 2022
However, the paper added, “In journalism, reporters often speak to many more sources than can be quoted or referred to by name in an article…” It was also noted that the NYT performed hundreds of interviews, and citing them all in the articles themselves would not be practical. There’s no easy answer to that. Understanding Citation Standards.
JD Supra Law
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
publishers of The Wall Street Journal and New York Post, (collectively, Plaintiffs), have filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against defendant Perplexity AI, Inc. Dow Jones & Company, Inc. and NYP Holdings, Inc. Perplexity AI, Inc. Plaintiffs Dow Jones and Company, Inc. and NYP Holdings, Inc.,
IP and Legal Filings
JANUARY 2, 2025
[link] Jamir O Neil, Lowering Barriers to Entry- YouTube, Fair Use and the Copyright Claims Board, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal, Vol 33 No. link] [4] Jamir O Neil, Lowering Barriers to Entry- YouTube, Fair Use and the Copyright Claims Board, Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal, Vol 33 No.
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Johnson was fired from BuzzFeed over widespread plagiarism in his work but quickly found new jobs at both the National Review Online and the Independent Journalism Review, two conservative publications. This is a practical reality in journalism today. In the first post about Gleeson, we talked about Benny Johnson. Bottom Line.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
In October 2021, Andrew Azzopardi and a student he was mentoring, Andrew Camilleri, published a literature review entitled Risk and Protective Factors in Violent Youth Crime in the first edition of the journal Studies in Social Well-being. . This includes allegations of plagiarism and data manipulation.
JD Supra Law
MARCH 4, 2025
Originally published in volume 38, issue 1 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, February 2025. Many practitioners would hypothesize that a patent with a longer prosecution history will be less likely to have an inherent validity problem. By: Baker Botts L.L.P.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Earlier this week, the journal BMC Medicine announced that it will not retract a controversial 2013 paper authored by botanist Steven Newmaster. Instead, the journal has added a new editor’s note that says indicates “no further editorial action is needed at this point”. . It was then that a formal investigation began.
Hugh Stephens Blog
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
Image by Greg Altmann/Pixabay This blog post appeared first in Open Canada, the journal of the Canadian International Council, on November 20, 2023.
SpicyIP
AUGUST 21, 2024
About the Journal: The Journal of Intellectual Property Studies is a bi-annual, peer reviewed academic journal published by Innovative Insights Pvt. The Journal was established in 2023 and primarily deals with contemporary developments in the field of intellectual property and related laws.
JD Supra Law
APRIL 1, 2025
This article is excerpted from the authors recent article in volume 38, issue 1 of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology titled The Myth of Bad Patents: Impact of Prosecution. Last month we discussed how prosecution length impacts invalidity rates during litigation. Now we discuss how it impacts findings of infringement.
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
However, Newton’s report comes as the Wall Street Journal is also examining Facebook’s efforts to block plagiarized and pirated content. According to the Wall Street Journal, though several researchers at Facebook proposed ways to decrease the reach of such content, those proposals were “deprioritized” by Mark Zuckerberg.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 13, 2022
For the next 20 years, Barrett did very little in the field of journalism, but The Atlantic invited her to publish a lengthy article in the November 2020 edition of the publication. According to Barrett, that retraction was excessive and was made out of fear and deference to The Washington Post more than proper journalism protocol.
Velocity of Content
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Over the past 11 years, since the start of 2012, the proportion of our authors choosing to publish open access in our hybrid journals has continued to rise. Our portfolio contains two fully OA journals, Royal Society Open Biology and Royal Society Open Science. In 2012 that proportion was ~11% and stood at ~60% at the end of 2022.
Michael Geist
NOVEMBER 25, 2023
Yesterday I was a guest on a Toronto-area radio station where I was asked to discuss the government’s plans to more than double the amount available per journalist as part of the labour journalism tax credit. I paused for a moment and said I disagreed, noting that there was good journalism and bad journalism, and his take was bad journalism.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 23, 2022
Finally today, Matt Reynolds at ABA Journal reports that, following their defeat at the Supreme Court, the state of Georgia has released its annotated legal code for free. The goal, they say, is to prove that they are complying with the injunction and are no longer useful as a pirate streaming service.
Plagiarism Today
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Finally today, Anne Steele at the Wall Street Journal reports that music publishers and streaming services are once again heading to the Copyright Royalty Board in a bid to try and establish favorable royalty rates for the next few years. 3: Music Publishers Propose Higher Streaming Payments.
Plagiarism Today
MARCH 8, 2022
The issue is that many of those papers have been published in various academic journals, which own the rights to them. However, one of the common uses of it is for researchers to publish copies of papers that they have completed.
Plagiarism Today
MAY 5, 2022
Finally today, Kristal Kuykendall at THE Journal reports that a federal judge has approved a judgment against PresenceLearning, ordering it to pay some $3.25 Neither Kanye nor the plaintiff had any comment on the lawsuit. 3: PresenceLearning Ordered to Pay Super Duper $3.25M in Copyright and Trademark Infringement Suit.
Michael Geist
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Journalism organizations have codes of conduct that they follow. They have to go before the CRTC if they don’t follow all of the proper journalism standards. These are things that are taught in journalism schools and in news rooms across the country. . I don’t think it’s necessary.
Plagiarism Today
JANUARY 13, 2022
Next up today, Demi Lawrence at Portland Business Journal reports that the outdoor apparel brand Poler is facing a lawsuit from Land Art & Design, alleging that many of the designs that founded the company were not properly licensed, especially since the company has new owners.
Plagiarism Today
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Finally today, Nick Hytrek at the Sioux City Journal reports that former United States Representative Steve King is facing a trial over his use of a popular meme during a reelection campaign. 3: King Copyright Infringement Trial to Begin in Federal Court.
Plagiarism Today
JULY 28, 2022
Finally today, Matt Southern at Search Engine Journal reports that YouTube is working to streamline and shorten the copyright claims process, in some cases taking it from as long as 60 days to just 7. 3: YouTube Reduces Length Of Copyright Dispute Process.
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