This Week in Law (TWiL), a podcast with lawyer Denise Howell done in tandem with the popular This Week in Tech (TWiT) podcast, discusses the issues of copyright, RSS feeds and implied license in its most recent podcast.
With special guest Jason Calacanis, blog entrepreneur and former head of Weblogs Inc., the panel reaches roughly the [...]

Yehuda Berlinger, a Jerusalem native, posted a very interesting entry to her blog back in July. Entitled “The U.S. Copyright code, in verse” the entry lays out the entire content of U.S. Copyright law in short rhyming stanzas.
Though it’s definitely cute, humorous and entertaining, it’s also somewhat useful. As someone who spends a great deal [...]

While doing research for a comment I posted, I ran across a very interesting link entitled "Website Spidering and Scraping: A Legal Minefield" by Jorge L. Contreras, Jr. and Nader Mousavi of WilmerHale.
The link is interesting in that it talks about all of the ways scrapers can run into legal trouble including [...]

Many times a tool that is designed for one purpose has an unintentional second use. Nowhere is that more evident than the fight against plagiarism. For example, Google was designed to find information online, not other copies of a work already available. Nonetheless, it now reigns as the greatest and easiest way to find plagiarized [...]

Earlier, I reviewed Duly Noted, a service that helps copyright holders protect their rights by providing an unbiased 3rd party verification of submitted works. The idea is to provide proof of ownership of a work by submitting and storing it in a safe place that is easily accessible in the event of a dispute.
While I [...]

The Columbia University Law Library has created a section of their site dedicated to the dissemination and organization of information regarding plagiarism in the music industry. The project, called the Columbia Law School Music Plagiarism Project, organizes and digitized copyright infringement cases in the United States revolving around music plagiarism as far back as the [...]

Plagiarized.com calls itself the “definitive guide to Internet plagiarism” and certainly strives to be exactly that. But even though it falls somewhat short on that grandiose claim, for reasons I’ll mention below, it certainly is a very useful source, especially for those who are interested mainly in academic plagiarism.
What I like about the site is [...]

Though the Internet has brought with it an explosion of plagiarism, such theft is hardly a new concept. In fact, it’s probably been around as long as the written language has.
FamousPlagiarists.com is a site dedicated to “celebrating” the great plagiarists in history. From Shakespeare to Melanie Grobler, this site covers nearly every great plagiarism controversy [...]