It is Monday again and that means it is time, in addition to my regular posting on the Blog Herald, for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
This week, in the time since we recorded the podcast, some very important information came to light regarding one of the stories, the issue of cease and [...]

In continuing the work that I began last week on the Stopping Internet Plagiarism section of the site, I’ve updated two more chapters of the work, Contacting the Plagiarist and Contacting the Host.
In both cases the updates were relatively minor in nature but both chapters required some work to bring them back up to code. [...]

When Justin Leonard created his site infomercialscams.com, he probably anticipated that he’d attract some unwanted legal attention. By letting people post their infomercial horror stories and calling out the con artists of late night, he was bound to ruffle some feathers, including a few lawyers.
However, he probably didn’t expect any of that attention to be [...]

I’ve threatened over the past few episodes of the Copyright 2.0 Show to leap into video casting and today I make something of an inglorious debut in it.
What I’ve done is recorded and uploaded a modified version of a presentation that I gave to the Virtual Assistant Revolution group in September that goes over the [...]

Often times, on this site and elsewhere, we criticize hosts for their poor handling of the DMCA while chiding Webmasters and other laypeople who make mistakes while filing DMCA notices.
Though the criticism of hosts is a little more fair since they were one of the parties pushing for the notice and takedown provision, the fact [...]

I’ve always felt that there is something to be said for solving a problem face to face. It seems, to me, that it is always best to resolve disagreements directly, when possible, and not involve outside parties.
The cease and desist letter is the obvious way to handle plagiarism and content theft matters face to [...]

The most commonly requested feature for Plagiarism Today has been stock letters to help you send out either cease and desist or DMCA notices.
If you’ve been waiting for such a feature, then today is your lucky day.
Though I’ve posted sample letters as part of I’ve now added it as a permanent part of the site [...]