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Today's Fresh Blogs...| 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 |
| 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 tough puzzle. However, the puzzle was designed to make a point about the complexity of |
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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 you need should be on Plagiarism Today. No searching other sites for the answer. We are all on the honor system here. No Lawyers: This is for laypeople. Sorry. That kind of advance knowledge is just cheating for this quiz. No Spam Sites: I reserve the right to not link to any site that may be spammy or inappropriate. Keep the sites clean, |
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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 |
| still claim that fighting plagiarism is not practical. They feel that it takes too long, costs too much money or is too distracting. To them, they would be better of spending their resources on other aspects of their site. However, as I’ve shown before, the best tools for fighting plagiarism are completely free and no case of plagiarism |
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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 implemented this myself on Plagiarism Today but, while my comment spam volume decreased some, it did not stop. Spoofing a referrer is pretty trivial and it seems that most comment spammers are already doing that. Yet another hack involves increasing the time between comment submissions, a method that works to stop spammers that |
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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 |
| and Larry gets accused of plagiarism And Many more… You can download the MP3 file here. Those interested in subscribing to the show can do so via this feed. Show Notes 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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| 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 |
| pocket, but it is a type of plagiarism that can and does happen. It is also a kind of plagiarism that raises a whole slew of new questions and concerns. How it is Done The process for scraping a dead site is surprisingly simple, involving only five steps. Visit an archiving site such as The Internet Archive Lookup an old site that you know 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 |
| past. The Changing Face of Plagiarism In the early days of the Web, plagiarism was predominantly a personal matter. People stole content from others in order to impress their friends or improve their image online. Though that problem is still ongoing, plagiarism has also become a business model. A small number of very prolific scrapers have |
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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 |
| work, a critical element of plagiarism but not all copyright infringement. Though you would still have to register your work before you sued, you could still claim damages for infringements that took place before the registration was filed. Those damages, according to the law, are between $2,500 and $25,000 per work. This amount could easily be |
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| Breaking News: Lara Jade Sues Pornographer |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 5:39 pm |
| Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, News, Body Magic, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Emotional Distress, Lara Jade, Photographs, Photography, Plagiarism, Pornography, Self Portrait |
| In May, I reported on DeviantArt photographer Lara Jade Coton who had discovered that a self-portrait she had taken when she was 14 was being used on the cover of a pornographic DVD. Earlier today she, through her attorney Richard Harrison, filed suit today in a Tampa courtroom against TVX Films, its owner, Robert Burge, and two retailers who |
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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 |
| When bloggers and Webmasters look at the issue of RSS scraping, they typically think solely about their main RSS feed. It is the feed that contains their posts, the one that is most subscribed to and the one most prominently displayed. When one thinks of “subscribing” to a site, most think exclusively about the main feed. However, on |
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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 |
| supposed to be a site about plagiarism and plagiarism-related news on the Web. For example, Kaavya Viswanathan and her scandal was an early staple of the site. However, even by that time, the focus had begun to shift. Plagiarism news was only covered weekly and in a “Wrap Up” format while other stories began to take center stage. |
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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 |
| Famous joke, humor and video site eBaumsWorld announced its sale yesterday to HandHeld. The acquisitions, worth fifteen million in cash and 2.5 million in stock if targets are met, is set to go through later this year. Many will remember that, over a year ago, eBaumsWorl, and its founder Eric Bauman became embroiled in a copyright battle as many |
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