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| Published: July 27, 2007, 10:50 am |
| Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Game, Legal, Plagiarism, Stock Letters, Templates, Winner |
| First off, congratulations to Jeremy Steele for successfully guessing which notice was correct! Due to an appeal to the Plagiarism Today Supreme Court, namely my wife, Jeremy has been declared the winner of the contest and I’ve been ordered to pay a heavy fine for being evil. So Jeremy, congratulations. You earned it by figuring out a very |
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| Game: Find the Valid DMCA Notice |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 1:08 pm |
| Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Cease And Desist, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Game, Legal, Notice And Takedow, Plagiarism, Stock Letters, Templates |
| Often times, on this site and elsewhere, we criticize hosts for their poor handling of the DMCA while chiding Webmasters and other laypeople who make mistakes while filing DMCA notices. Though the criticism of hosts is a little more fair since they were one of the parties pushing for the notice and takedown provision, the fact remains that the |
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| Five Practical Reasons for Fighting Plagiarism |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 12:43 pm |
| Tags: Prevention, Products, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Creative Commons, Google, Marketing, Plagiarism, Reuptation, Scraping, Search Engines, Seo |
| up with your site’s content, if someone steals it, they avoid those expenses. This means they can offer their products cheaper and enjoy higher profits. That translates to money out of your pocket. Reputation Issues: If you’re a new artist and you leave plagiarism unchecked, some will believe that you are the one stealing the |
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| WordPress and Comment Spam |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 3:56 pm |
| Tags: Prevention, Personal Experiences, Articles, Akismet, Automattic, Comment Spam, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Plagiarism, Scraping, Spam, Spam Blogs, Wordpress |
| have much to do with content theft, I have several reasons for wanting to cover this. First many of the RSS scrapers and spam bloggers also use this technique to supplement their work. Second, in some cases, the spammed comment contains scraped content, either from your site or others making it an infringement. Finally, it is an issue |
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| New Porn Group to Tackle Piracy |
| Published: July 20, 2007, 1:32 pm |
| Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, News, Adult Entertainment, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, File Sharing, Gapa, P2p, Piracy, Plagiarism, Porn |
| advantage and, despite adult content making up the bulk of file sharing, was a thriving industry. However, that may change soon. A new organization, The Global Anti-Piracy Agency (GAPA), has been founded by Sureflixx Digital Distribution “with the singular mission of working on behalf of the adult entertainment industry to fight piracy of |
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| Picking a Dead Man's Pocket |
| Published: July 19, 2007, 12:23 pm |
| Tags: Prevention, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Archive, Caching, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Internet Archive, Meta Tags, Plagiarism, Robots Txt, Rss, Scraping, Spam, Spammers, Splogs |
| engine bots, this type of content theft can seem like a dream come true, especially when one weighs the advantages that come with it. The Advantages for Scrapers When looking at why a scraper or a plagiarist would find this kind of content appealing, consider the following: Since the content has been removed from the search engines, there is |
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| Why the Cease and Desist Doesn't Work |
| Published: July 17, 2007, 1:21 pm |
| Tags: Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Articles, Dmca, Cease And Desist, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Mpaa, Plagiarism, Riaa, Social Networking |
| way to handle plagiarism and content theft matters face to face. However, in a recent article on the Blog Herald, I lamented the decreasing effectiveness of cease and desist letters. I’ve expressed similar concerns on this site and the trend only seems to be accelerating. The reason for the near-death of the cease and desist, and along with |
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| Episode 15 - The Copyright 2.0 Show - MPAA Piracy? |
| Published: July 16, 2007, 2:05 pm |
| Tags: Podcast, Articles, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Google, Internet Radio, Mpaa, Netcast, Plagiarism, Podtcast, Prince, Riaa, Viacom |
| It’s Monday again and that means it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. As Chris and I stammer our way through another week of copyright news including the following stories: Net radio wins a reprieve against rate hikes Google takes a shot at Viacom Prince angers his label with a CD giveaway The MPAA is accused of |
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| How the Copyright Office Hurts Bloggers |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 1:51 pm |
| Tags: Punditry, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Cmi, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Copyright Office, Law, Mpaa, Plagiarism, Registration, Riaa, Usco |
| The same copyright system that allows the RIAA to go on a rampage of lawsuits and empowers movie studios to cripple fair use of their work is tying the hands of small copyright holders on the Web. Worst hit of all are the bloggers, who often endure the worst kinds of infringement only to discover that they have no ability to enforce their rights. |
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| Protecting the Comment Feed |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 2:51 pm |
| Tags: Prevention, Articles, Atom, Comments, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Feed, Plagiarism, Rss, Scraping, Spam Blogs, Splogs, Wordpress |
| small fraction of the total content on the site itself. On many active sites, the bulk of the material is posted by visitors via the comments feature. Though this reliance on user-generated content (UGC) brings with it a slew of new risks, one of the more overlooked dangers is the ability for such content to be scraped and republished the same |
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| Plagiarism Today Turns Two |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 2:24 pm |
| Tags: Housekeeping, Personal, Articles, Anniversary, Birthday, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Plagiarism, Plagiarism Today, Scrapers, Scraping, Spam Blogs, Splogs, Two |
| First, that was discussing theft of their content. Though I was too late to provide any help with stopping the plagiarism, I did provide some post-mortem analysis in an attempt to help. The owner of the blog, Beth, never forgot about what I did. When Maura Welch of the Boston Globe interviewed her about the theft, Beth mentioned my name. A |
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| eBaum's World Sells for $15 Million |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 12:16 pm |
| Tags: Articles, News, Bauman, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Ebaumsworld, Eric Bauman, Handheld, Plagiarism, Sale |
| face when it comes to content theft matters. Though it remains to be seen if and how HandHeld will change eBaumsWorld’s copyright policy, with significantly more money at stake, staying the course does not seem likely. Though many will lament the fact Bauman received such a large paycheck for his alleged infringements, it may work |
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| Copyright 2.0 Show - Episode 18 - Creepy Dolls |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 3:16 pm |
| Tags: Podcast, Articles, Bittorrent, Camming, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Mpaa, Plagiarism, Riaa, Thepiratebay, Transformers, Youtube |
| It’s Monday again and that means it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. This week the VOIP Gods smiled upon Chris and I as we were able to conduct the entire episode without as much as a hitch. As is usual, we complete our trifecta by discussing the RIAA, Youtube and the MPAA over the course of the podcast as we covered |
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| A Scrape of a Scrape |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 11:07 am |
| Tags: Prevention, Personal Experiences, Articles, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Ie7, Plagiarism, Rss, Scraping, Spam, Spam Blogging, Spam Blogs, Splogs |
| redistributing the entire content of feeds in certain places, though stripping formatting in the process. This gives us yet another reason to get a handle on our RSS feeds and make sure that they don’t fall in the wrong hands to begin with. Though these sites attributed their use, most are not so generous and even attributed scraping |
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| New Author Group Targets Piracy |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 12:47 pm |
| Tags: Prevention, Articles, News, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Ebooks, P2p, Pdf, Piracy, Plagiarism, Publishers, Publishing |
| Maria Langer, no doubt familiar to regular commenters on this site, has created a new Yahoo group for authors entitled “Authors Against Piracy” The invite-only group is targeted at published authors to discuss “how authors and publishers can prevent electronic publications from being freely distributed by software pirates and |
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