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• Copyright Tool: Fair Use Visualizer

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:38 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Dmca, Fair Use, Plagiarism

  the most difficult area of copyright law is fair use. Not only are the issues involved in fair use complicated and difficult to understand, but the answer is never satisfying. Since fair use can only be decided by a judge or jury and is handled on a case-by-case basis, there is no way to offer a definitive answer about what is or is not fair

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• DMCA Game Answer

  Published: July 27, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Game, Legal, Plagiarism, Stock Letters, Templates, Winner

  to be filed by either the copyright holder or an authorized agent. Though the second one states that they do not believe the use is authorized by either, it does not state that the notice is submitted by one or the other. That is a major distinction from EU notice and takedown and is a legal requirement of the DMCA. The second letter,

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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

  provision. It removed copyright liability from them and gave them a legal system to remove works that were infringing while removing them from the requirement to search for potential copyright violations. Regardless, the DMCA is a difficult law to use and it is the responsibility of the host to make sure the notices they receive are valid.

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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

  For most, being plagiarized is an inherently emotional experience. Finding out that someone else copied and claimed something that took hours to produce is bound to produce some negative feelings. This has lead some to wonder if fighting plagiarism is more about revenge than practicality. To some, it is better to simply forget about 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

  I would like to take an aside and delve into a related topic that has been on my mind for the past few months: Comment spam. Though it doesn’t 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

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• Copyright 2.0 Show - Episode 16 - Irony

  Published: July 23, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Podcast, Articles, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Harry Potter, Iphone, Mpaa, Plagiarism, Riaa

  for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. This week, we delve into this week’s latest copyright news with our usual mix of humor and sarcasm. This week’s topics include the following: RIAA takes a pair of major blows Harry Potter gets leaked The iPhone gets called a copyright risk An IP blog infringes copyright Chuck and

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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

  In December of last year, I wrote about how the adult entertainment industry was using “piracy” to its 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

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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

  given the current length of copyright law, any such scraping would likely be an infringement. Unless the work was placed under a Creative Commons license or donated to the public domain, the work is almost certainly still protected and the copying is illegal. However, with the business interest in protecting those works gone, any copyright 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

  have turned many against copyright law itself. In the minds of some, copyright is nothing more than a tool used by large corporations to quash users. Thus, any mention of copyright law or enforcing copyrights is likely to be met with hostility. No matter how in the wrong they are, a plagiarist might stand up and fight on principle, perhaps

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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

  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 piracy And Many more… You can download the

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• In Brief: Google is developing a digital fingerprint ...

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:30 am

  Tags: Copyright, Digital Rights, Digital Video, Youtube

  Google is developing a digital fingerprint technology that purports to block the uploading of copyrighted material to YouTube within 2 minutes. With the goal of rolling out this technology by year end, you could be annoyed with enjoying these new features as early as September.

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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

  work was traveling to the Copyright Office, unclaimable damages would be accruing. Second, there is one kind of copyright infringement that does not require a registration to sue for, the removal or falsifying of copyright management information (CMI). This is basically the removal of attribution, copyright information or licensing data from

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• Google Cleaning Up YouTube Mess

  Published: July 30, 2007, 2:42 pm

  Tags: News, Copyright Infringement, Google, Viacom, Youtbue

  a responsibility to track copyrighted material from the beginning as it is not only illegal, but the site gains profit from said material. They have built a business on this infringement, he said. Google attorney, Philip Beck has been sticking to Google's main argument that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's fair harbor

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• Google's Defense Against Copyright Infringement

  Published: July 30, 2007, 8:01 am

  Tags: Interesting Technology, Copyright Infringement, Daily, Dmca, Google, Youtube, Dis, Via, Goog

  in Viacom's (VIA) $1 billion copyright infringement against Google's (GOOG) YouTube is an effort by Google to develop a DMCA-compliant technology that will assist the site in taking down illegally uploaded content. A Google attorney told the court last Friday that the company was working on a video recognition tool that would compare uploaded

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• Pilgrim's Picks for July 30

  Published: July 30, 2007, 10:56 am

  Tags: General, Auctionads, Carat, Copyright Infringement, Icrossing, Media Whiz, New Zealand, Nowpublic, Proxicom, Sun Microsystems

  to in infringe a copyright, you could go to jail. AuctionAds sells to Media Whiz - congrats to all involved. Search Strategies has a new report for sale on the state of search marketing in New Zealand. iCrossing acquires web development firm Proxicom Pilgrim Partners: Is Your Marketing Strategy Working? Let us evaluate your entire

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