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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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• 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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• 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

  required to obtain a copyright were supposed to be eliminated. This included, in theory, copyright registration. The United States, however, found a way around that. According to U.S. law, all of the rights a copyright holder obtains are bestowed upon them once the work is “fixated into a tangible medium of expression” but one

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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

  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 the following news items: The Pirate

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• Ripped Art Task Force Seeks Volunteers

  Published: August 7, 2007, 3:14 pm

  Tags: Articles, News, Art, Art Theft, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Deviant Art, Plagiarism, Ripped Art

  DeviantArt’s Ripped Art Task Force, previously covered on this site, is seeking volunteers to help process reported rips. The group, which has already become one of the most successful grass-roots anti-plagiarism forces, is receiving more cases than it can effectively process. The group needs volunteers, especially ones very familiar with

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• Find Image Plagiarism with FeelImage

  Published: August 10, 2007, 2:16 pm

  Tags: Products, Articles, News, Art, Artists, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Feel Image, Fingerprinting, Image, Image Search, Photography, Search

  New photo search engine FeelImage aims to make it easier to search for photographs by their “feeling”, in particular their color and time. Though it might seem like something of a novelty, the ability for users to search for “purple flower” or “red car” might have an unintended side effect, enabling

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• FeelImage No Longer Displaying Flickr Photos

  Published: August 14, 2007, 1:51 pm

  Tags: Products, Legal Issues, Articles, News, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Feelimage, Image Search, Image Theft, Natural Search, Plagiarism Detection, Search, Search Engines

  but not if it creates more copyright issues than it resolves, as was the case under the old system. If you found this article useful, please consider donating to this site. Need Plagairism Help? Visit the Performancing Legal Issues Forum. jonb1324crShare This

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• Reminder: Performancing Legal Issues Forum Available

  Published: August 14, 2007, 12:35 pm

  Tags: Housekeeping, Articles, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Law, Cybersquatting, Forums, Legal Issues, Performancing, Plagiarism, Trademark

  questions surrounding copyright law, trademark issues and cybersquatting problems among others. It is a valuable and free resource that I am proud to be a part of. I encourage anyone with legal questions pertaining to blogging to post there, if practical to do so, not only to receive help but help others that might be in a similar

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• The DMCA on 7 Photo Sharing Sites

  Published: August 16, 2007, 1:58 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Flickr, Image Theft, Imageshack, Notice Takedown, Photobucket, Plagiarism, Safe Harbor, Smugmug, Snapfish, Webshots, Zooomr

  inadequate to report copyright infringement in accordance with the law and, as of this writing, ImageShack has not registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Though their relatively short terms of service mentions copyright three different times, their overall policy shows a general lack of planning. Format: Email Email Address:

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• The Need to Modernize the DMCA Agent List

  Published: August 21, 2007, 12:56 pm

  Tags: Punditry, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Copyright Office, Dmca Agents, Dmca Notice, Plagiarism, United States, Usco

  the times when it comes to copyright law and the USCO is the embodiment of that problem. If we are going to catch up with the world and have our laws catch up with technology, we first have to remove the dead weight. That can start with either ridding ourselves of much of the USCO’s function or, at the very least, modernizing it properly.

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• The DMCA on 7 Social Networking Sites

  Published: August 23, 2007, 1:48 pm

  Tags: Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Articles, Dmca, Bebo, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Designated Agent, Facebook, Friendster, Linkedin, Myspace, Orkut, Safe Harbor, Xanga

  Email/Form Email Address: copyright at facebook dot com Location of Policy: Facebook’s Copyright Policy Registered with USCO: Yes Comments: Facebook is a trend setter in so many ways, hopefully it can be one here as well. Facebook’s copyright policy is amazingly robust, including both notice and counter-notice information as well

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• Tip: Getting Around an IP Block

  Published: August 24, 2007, 11:58 am

  Tags: Products, Personal Experiences, Articles, Anonymity, Anonymouse, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Google, Google Translate, Ip Blocking, Plagiarism, Proxy, The Onion Router, Tor

  If you do enough work in dealing with plagiarists, it is bound to happen. A plagiarist, scraper or other ne’er-do-well, not wanting to deal with your accusations, will simply block your IP from visiting their site in hopes that you’ll think the site is down and go away. It’s an amateurish move that is usually executed by someone

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• Copyscape Premium: An Epic Letdown

  Published: August 28, 2007, 1:33 pm

  Tags: Products, Personal Experiences, Articles, Api, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Copyscape, Google, Google Api, Plagiarism, Plagiarism Detection, Plagiarism Search

  When bloggers talk about protecting their work from plagiarism, one name gets more buzz than any other: Copyscape. Though I’ve been very critical of Copyscape in the past on this site, it is clear that they are the only company currently serving this niche and many people are excited about their services. However, the biggest criticism

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