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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

  Perhaps 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

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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

  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

  all report the same “infringement” there are no fair use or other legal questions. There are also no issues of semantics. This should be cut and dry and the reasons are based upon the law itself, not what an individual host *might* accept. (Hint: I don’t cheat, but I do use red herrings.) Have Fun: Though not a rule, it is

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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

  site or others making it an infringement. Finally, it is an issue that is dear to the target readers of this site, bloggers and Webmasters. Though WordPress’ reputation against spam blogs has been almost impeccable, it has proved to be very vulnerable to comment spam. This has given rise to an entire cottage industry of anti-spam plugins

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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

  It’s Monday again and that means it is time 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

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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

  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 likely to go unenforced. Most won’t care to

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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 seized upon copyright infringement not as a means of impressing their friends and neighbors, but as a way of making money. The problem with this business model is that it requires a large quantity of material. That is only possible through automated means such as RSS scraping or content generation and it results in millions of junk pages,

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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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• Kodak sues Matsushita over patent infringement

  Published: July 27, 2007, 8:47 pm

  Tags: Infringement, Jvc, Kodak, Lawsuit, Legal, Matsushita, Panasonic, Patent

  Filed under: Digital Cameras Kodak, a name pretty much synonymous with the word "camera" in the past, and "crap" more recently, sued Japanese manufacturer Masushita (primary owner of Panasonic, amongst others), alleging the company infringed upon its digital camera patents. In documents filed in Texas, Kodak claims that the company violated

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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

  for statutory damages for infringement that occurs after the work is registered. Since actual damages in many infringements is effectively zero (and are difficult to prove when they take place), suing for infringements that take place before registration is almost impossible. This system does not hurt traditional media. The cost of registering

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• Google Cleaning Up YouTube Mess

  Published: July 30, 2007, 2:42 pm

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

  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 provisions protect the company from copyright infringement, adding that the case is more complicated than simple copyright infringement. Phil Beck of Bartlit

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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

  (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 videos to

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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

  More hot and fresh marketing news for you peruse: Carat USA and Cart Fusion become one entity. Are we seeing the start of true integration of offline and online? Or, was one division simply struggling and this is just a cost savings? Citizen journalism site NowPublic raises $10.6 million - just don’t call them “citizen

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