Plagiarism Today

Thanks very much for posting this tidbit, very interesting! After seeing your comment I did a little googling, and fascinating to me is that a special law was passed in the UK specifically to make one of the Peter Pan copyrights held by Great Ormandy Street never expire: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/10/21/peter-pan-and-the-copyright…

You can still get hoodwinked by youtubers[0] who (to the untrained eye) look like they know what they are talking about but are actually grifters[1] wasting your time [0]: Siraj Raval (700k subscribers!): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A [1]: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2019/10/16/why-siraj-ravals-plagiarism…

http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/ has all the information you need in notifying affiliates and filing a DMCA.

Things may have changed in the last few years as blogspam is still pretty lucrative and has continued to advance, but I remember reading a study a few years ago (found here: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2007/04/09/why-wordpresscom-is-virtuall… that made the conclusion that by barring Wordpress.com bloggers from using AdSense and other advertising services, they significantly cut down on the amount of spam Blogger and other services had to deal with. Wordpress.com does have WordAds (http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/wordads/). Otherwise, if you don't qualify for WordAds, self-hosting may be your best option.

Sure. To get you started... An imperfect measure is to just get a sense of where a countries top university is ranked. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2019/wo… is one. US news is another. In all cases top Romanian institutions are all 500+ down the list. That is pretty bad. South Africa for example has much better universities (150 - 200 range) with UCT (and that's true - UCT has a good reputation). https://wenr.wes.org/2017/12/academic-fraud-corruption-and-implication… https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2012/07/02/the-plagiarism-insanity-in-… Can I ask if you have lived or worked overseas (outside of core EU/US countries) US has issues in its for profit colleges and universities among others as well so it's not accurate that all US institutions are strong. I would have reacted the same way if I recognized a the article as being from a predatory journal (https://beallslist.weebly.com/) Note, I'm looking at the website as a whole, and the claims it is making. This includes endorsements by the BBC, endorsements by medical doctors, and "scientifically proven" "superfoods" that "dramatically decrease LDL-C, triglycerides, and total cholesterol while raising HDL-C" In each case I looked into the support was not great. In other words, this issue is about the supposedly unfair treatment of the site relative to other sources of…

Slightly off topic but its a question related to BlockAI... Does anyone know if this is actual proof that has been accepted in a legal court in any country in regards to a copyright dispute? https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2006/08/25/the-myth-of-poor-mans-copyr… > Then, in the courtroom, things don't get any better. First off, the court room will not be a federal one, but a state one. Since you didn't register your work, you can not sue in federal court and, thus, will only be eligible to receive either the amount the infringement made or the amount you lost, whichever is greater. Sadly, in many, if not most, copyright matters that amount is equal to exactly zero. http://www3.ce9.uscourts.gov/jury-instructions/node/262 > A copyright registration certificate can shift the burden of coming forward with proof of plaintiff’s ownership of a valid copyright. The certificate constitutes prima facie evidence of the validity of the copyright and facts stated in the certificate. Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Seattle Lighting Fixture Co., 345 F.3d 1140, 1144–45 (9th Cir.2003). The judge may consider instructing the jury using Instruction 17.5 where: 1) the plaintiff submits no certificate of registration, or 2) the plaintiff produces a registration made five years after the date of the first publication, or 3) the plaintiff submits a registration made within five years of first publication and the defendant submits evidence to dispute the plaintiff’s ownership of a valid copyright. > A…

Warhammer IP is a fucking nightmare. They will bring all kinds of hammers down on anyone trying to make money on anything Warhammer-compatible or resembling Warhammer. Examples of what they pull when someone tries to do that: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2024/01/24/printed-minis-and-the-power… https://freelancerpress.com/arts/2025/06/04/games-workshop-issues-warh…

Not before 1899, but Peter Pan has a unique eternal copyright in the UK https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/10/21/peter-pan-and-the-copyright…

> you’ve never seen how much spam, and how many DMCA requests, are completely real. I would personally estimate 90%+ Source? There are abundant claims to the contrary [1][2]. (I can't find any quality data either way.) [1] https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2019/01/10/youtubes-copyright-insanity… [2] https://www.businessinsider.com/youtubers-channels-are-being-held-host…

The US had to much looser copyright terms until it tried to align with the Berne Convention. So there are minimum copyright terms that the US must comply by. US only joined the Berne Convention in 1989. https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2021/05/13/why-did-the-united-states-w…

FYI AVGN is not a gaming nerd irl or even interested in games in general. Afaik Mike Matei created and curated AVGN persona. Perhaps even worse James Rolfe doesnt even write his own movie reviews https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2021/10/05/the-cinemassacre-monster-pl… https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/cinemassacre-plagiarism-scandal

Turns out to be a pretty interesting story, and one that I somehow never heard! https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2011/10/17/dracula-vs-nosferatu-a-true…

It is the same appeal as a novel and appeared at the same time: In 1614 an author (or group of authors) writing under the name Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda published Second Book of the Ingenious Knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, an unauthorized and unofficial sequel to the first part. Sometimes referred to as the “False Quixote” (PDF), the book and its author have been the subject of much debate in the more than four centuries since. https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/05/18/how-don-quixote-handled-an-…

CPedia was an attempted pivot by doomed search startup Cuil that would more or less build a Wikipedia-like page out of random text on the Web about whatever you searched for. This article describes it a bit. https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2010/06/09/cpedia-a-spam-blog-disguise…

The Dollop just plagiarizes content from other sources. They have a (not always complete) list of sources on their website, but on the podcast itself, they read other sources word-for-word without giving attribution: https://www.damninteresting.com/appendices/dollop-exhibits/new-claims-… https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/07/15/how-a-comedy-podcast-sparke…

>That is not how writing works, and it is an idea Bello needs to disabuse herself of. [1] It's refreshing to see a lack of critique or commentary to the above statement with regards to gender, race, mental status, or any other categorization. But plagiarism does not appear to be a universal violation of ethics when discovered. [2] [1] https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/05/09/plagiarism-today-plagiarize… [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism

Europe has a concept for copyright that is not recognized in the U.S.: moral rights. https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2020/08/04/10-ways-eu-copyright-is-dif… > 2: Moral Rights > Moral rights are the rights of an artist to claim authorship in their work (IE: Right to attribution), object to offensive or derogatory treatment of the work, including destroying it. > Though moral rights are a part of the Berne Convention, of which the U.S. is a signatory, the U.S. never fully implemented moral rights into their code. Instead, it passed the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA) a law that extended moral rights to an extremely limited subset of visual works. > As with fair use, this limited view on moral rights is another uniquely American element. Copyright holders in the EU enjoy much broader more rights. However, this is true in much of the rest of the world as well.

The recipe problem is mostly because actual recipes are not copyrightable. See e.g. https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/03/24/recipes-copyright-and-plagi…

Yes! That is who I'm thinking of. For anyone else reading, the scandals go beyond the one twitter thread: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2019/10/16/why-siraj-ravals-plagiarism…

In the discussion yesterday I pointed to the case of some students suing turnitin for using their works in the turnitin database and the studemts lost [1]. I think an individual suing will not go anywhere. The way to create a precedent is someone feeding all the Harry Potter books and some additional popular books (twilight?) to GPT 3 and letting them write about some kids at a sorcerer school. The outcomes of that case would look very different IMO. [1] https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2008/03/25/iparadigms-wins-t...

You may find some answers in these stories. Ultimately it may mean going to court and have judges decide the amount of similarities. https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2018/07/24/the-rise-of-board-game-plag…

Copyright ownership is not a matter of your opinion. It is settled law, mutually recognized by the 179 countries (out of the 195 in the world) who have signed the Berne Convention [1]. Copyright ownership is established as soon as a work is "fixed in a tangible medium of expresssion" [2]—in other words, as soon as the contributor wrote it on their laptop. The "author" entry in the package.json file is irrelevant. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention [2]: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2017/10/03/with-copyright-what-does-ta…

I find it fascinating that prior to the Copyright Act of 1976, any work without the correct copyright notice would automatically enter the public domain. In this case, it's interesting to see how the incentives for preventing such a mistake are skewed. It was the responsibility of the distributor to ensure the correct copyright notice, but they stood to gain when they didn't (and reportedly[1] kept all of the profits). [1] https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2011/10/10/how-a-copyright-mistake-cre…

If he felt it was frivolous, he would dismiss it. There's nothing wrong with filing large numbers of cases, per se. See also https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2018/04/12/what-is-a-copyright-troll/

It's just that what you describe has got very little to do with how open source works. So why are they mentioning open source? (As an aside, I'm also not sure that's as much of an issue in enforcing copyright as it is in enforcing trademark, but I'm no lawyer. But: > Copyright is not like trademark. Copyright has a set period of time for which it is valid and, unless you take some kind of action, you do not give up those rights… However, unlike trademarks, which do have to be defended, there is nothing the precludes you from enforcing your copyrights at a later date. https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/stopping-internet-plagiarism/your-copy… But I'm not sure how relevant this really is).

I was wondering how that can be public domain. So to save others some searching: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2016/10/25/why-night-of-the-living-dea… The short answer is, they forgot to put the copyright notice on it, and at the time, that made it public domain.

i think what they are talking about is to provide technical means for the xanadu features, while leaving the legal questions to others. so i suppose that mimix will support transclusion, but it's up to the user to figure out whether transcluding a certain document is a copyright violation or not. interestingly, iframes in html are an example of transclusion, so this is not exactly a new feature, and there are discussions on copyright about it: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2009/04/07/is-the-diggbar-content-thef… https://policyreview.info/articles/news/eu-ruling-embedding-does-not-e… (funny how that seemingly contradicts the link-tax which started this branch of the discussion. i can transclude but i have to pay for a link?)

And let's not forget about the "Ad Blocking DMCA Debacle" A good summary here: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2017/08/15/explaining-ad-blocking-dmca… My takeaway is that DCMA is a powerful weapon to use against ad blocking. It'll be interesting to see how this aspect of the industry plays out.

However, when he first saw BuzzFeed’s recipe, published on their food site called Tasty, in May of this year, he said the ingredient list was nearly identical “with a few tweaks”. — Kenji López-Alt http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/buzzfeed-accused-of-i… You can't copyright a list of ingredients. https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2015/03/24/recipes-copyright-and-plagi…

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2014/02/17/saga-candy-crush-saga/ Is this accurate?