Month: November 2005
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Chronicle Prints Plagiarist’s Confession
Though I don’t normally cover matters that solely affect the academic world, the Chronicle for Higher Education, a leading educational…
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Losing the War on Splogging?
According to Technorati, a full eight percent of all new blogs are spam, an estimated 5600 splogs a day. Google,…
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Punditry Saturday: With Friends Like These…
The Web is loaded with copyright experts and organizations dealing with copyright reform. I’m not going to single any one…
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Study Chronicles DMCA Abuses
Jennifer Urban of USC’s Intellectual Property Legal Clinic and Laura Quilter of the Samuelson Clinic at the University of California,…
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Ken Perkins: Plagiarist or Scapegoat?
There’s little question that Ken Perkins, former TV critic for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, resigned after plagiarism accusations began to…
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International Incidents
In the hundreds of cases of plagiarism I’ve dealt with, only a few have really stood out as being exceptionally…
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Punditry Sunday: Newspaper Ethics
With not one(reg req.), not two, but three plagiarism scandals at major newspapers these past few weeks, one has to…
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Madonna Loses Plagiarism Lawsuit
Reuters, along with other news agencies, is reporting that Belgian songwriter Salvatore Acquaviva won a plagiarism lawsuit against pop sensation…
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Message Boards, Moderators and Admins
Even as blogging has moved to the forefront of the point and click Web, making them a staple crop for…
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Lulu.com: Self Published Plagiarism?
About six months ago, I was dealing with a very difficult case of plagiarism. One girl, a high school student…
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