Since my last game was at least three shades of cruel and almost unsolvable. I’ve decided to give it another try, this time time with a much more simple premise and fewer tactics worthy of Dr. House. This time around the rules are much more straightforward Ten questions, all of them basic copyright questions, and…
Category Archives: Legal Issues
The DMCA on 7 Print-on-Demand Publishers
With modern technology, anyone can be a published author. Print on demand services enable anyone to create a book and publish it without worrying about issues of distribution, storage and what to do with thousands of unsold copies. The print on demand publishing industry has exploded in recent years, giving thousands of authors an opportunity…
iParadigms Accuses iPlagiarismCheck of Abuse
Update: See footer of article for iPlagiarismCheck’s response. When Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff, a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, set out to test and compare the top plagiarism detection tools available, she never expected to catch one of the programs in a lie. However, it appears that is exactly what she did….
The DMCA on 7 Advertising Networks
Advertising networks are very important allies in the fight against plagiarism and content theft. As one of the most popular revenue streams for scrapers and other spammers, they often unwittingly bankroll many of the content thieves who plague the Internet. However, advertising networks are not covered by the DMCA. Since they are not hosts and…
Updates to DMCA Contact List
I’ve done several updates to the DMCA Contact Information list, mainly adding companies that I’ve either gotten information from or have profiled in the “DMCA Seven” series but never added tot his list. The companies added include Mahalo, Squidoo (special request), Zooomr, Break and about six other sites. Also, I did a quick dead link…
The DMCA on 7 Search Engines
For the next chapter of the “DMCA Seven” series, we take a look at the port of last resort for many copyright infringement cases, search engines. Ideally, one would only send a DMCA to a search engine after other steps, such as cease and desist letters and DMCAs to Web hosts, have failed. However, since…
Article Marketing: Death By Spam?
Many authors and experts, both established and new, use article marketing in order to promote themselves and their sites. The idea itself is pretty simple. You write a series of relatively short articles, put them out there for anyone to use and, when other sites republish them they’ll include both your name and a link…
RSS Brief: Another Scraping/Spam Threat
Yesterday, the makers of the controversial Pay Per Post service launched a new tool designed to make blog reading faster, RSS Brief. The idea is that the service takes long posts, like what you might expect here on Plagiarism Today, and condenses them down into a few short sentences. Though the service sounds convenient and…
The DMCA on 7 Domain Hosts
For the next chapter of the “DMCA Seven” series, we take a look at a different kind of hosts, domain hosts. These differ from most of the other hosts we’ve covered in that they are not free services, but rather, paid hosts that earn monthly or yearly fees from their subscribers. Despite the apparent conflict…
Legal and Ethical Link Blogging
In a recent post on TechCrunch, Duncan Riley sparked a controversy by saying that the blogs created by Google Reader’s linkblog feature “already break copyright and in a small way undermine blogs and content creators.” That statement resulted in a flurry of comments with individuals falling on both sides of the debate. The debate then…
Category Archives: Legal Issues
Game: Copyright 101 Quiz
Since my last game was at least three shades of cruel and almost unsolvable. I’ve decided to give it another try, this time time with a much more simple premise and fewer tactics worthy of Dr. House. This time around the rules are much more straightforward Ten questions, all of them basic copyright questions, and…
The DMCA on 7 Print-on-Demand Publishers
With modern technology, anyone can be a published author. Print on demand services enable anyone to create a book and publish it without worrying about issues of distribution, storage and what to do with thousands of unsold copies. The print on demand publishing industry has exploded in recent years, giving thousands of authors an opportunity…
iParadigms Accuses iPlagiarismCheck of Abuse
Update: See footer of article for iPlagiarismCheck’s response. When Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff, a professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, set out to test and compare the top plagiarism detection tools available, she never expected to catch one of the programs in a lie. However, it appears that is exactly what she did….
The DMCA on 7 Advertising Networks
Advertising networks are very important allies in the fight against plagiarism and content theft. As one of the most popular revenue streams for scrapers and other spammers, they often unwittingly bankroll many of the content thieves who plague the Internet. However, advertising networks are not covered by the DMCA. Since they are not hosts and…
Updates to DMCA Contact List
I’ve done several updates to the DMCA Contact Information list, mainly adding companies that I’ve either gotten information from or have profiled in the “DMCA Seven” series but never added tot his list. The companies added include Mahalo, Squidoo (special request), Zooomr, Break and about six other sites. Also, I did a quick dead link…
The DMCA on 7 Search Engines
For the next chapter of the “DMCA Seven” series, we take a look at the port of last resort for many copyright infringement cases, search engines. Ideally, one would only send a DMCA to a search engine after other steps, such as cease and desist letters and DMCAs to Web hosts, have failed. However, since…
Article Marketing: Death By Spam?
Many authors and experts, both established and new, use article marketing in order to promote themselves and their sites. The idea itself is pretty simple. You write a series of relatively short articles, put them out there for anyone to use and, when other sites republish them they’ll include both your name and a link…
RSS Brief: Another Scraping/Spam Threat
Yesterday, the makers of the controversial Pay Per Post service launched a new tool designed to make blog reading faster, RSS Brief. The idea is that the service takes long posts, like what you might expect here on Plagiarism Today, and condenses them down into a few short sentences. Though the service sounds convenient and…
The DMCA on 7 Domain Hosts
For the next chapter of the “DMCA Seven” series, we take a look at a different kind of hosts, domain hosts. These differ from most of the other hosts we’ve covered in that they are not free services, but rather, paid hosts that earn monthly or yearly fees from their subscribers. Despite the apparent conflict…
Legal and Ethical Link Blogging
In a recent post on TechCrunch, Duncan Riley sparked a controversy by saying that the blogs created by Google Reader’s linkblog feature “already break copyright and in a small way undermine blogs and content creators.” That statement resulted in a flurry of comments with individuals falling on both sides of the debate. The debate then…
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