It has been another wild week for copyright news with updates from all over the copyright universe including developments in the Spore DRM drama as well as a sticky situation for 3M.

A new image search engine, Gazopa, was recently announced and holds a great deal of promise for making image search easier. Unfortunately, one area it struggles is in detecting image copying.

I have created a new page on Plagiarism Today designed to help debunk some of the most common, and most dangerous, copyright myths.

Though proxying is by no means a new technology, new services have pushed the technology to the forefront of the content theft debate and forced Webmasters to deal with a new method of Web site “copying”.

iCopyright, the prominent content licensing service, has announced a new service to help customers detect and remedy copying of their work.

The site for the content licensing service RightsAgent has been down for approximately 48 hours, causing broken images on sites that use the service and an inability to license new works.

We’re finally back to something resembling normal this week as have a full linkroll with lots of important copyright news. Get all the latest on Harry Potter, Spore, Apple, OINK and more.

As the political contest has continued on, the accusations of plagiarism have not been left behind. It’s time to abandon these insults and move on to the real issues at hand.

BackType, a new comment search engine, has raised the ire of many bloggers for its practice of scraping and republishing full comments. But what is the service about and how can it resolve these issues?

After years of being left heartbroken by creators of image DRM solutions, I’ve decided to open my doors and issue a challenge to anyone who things they have the holy grail of image protection.