Spammers are nothing if not clever and a new technique to scrape posts could cause headaches for bloggers as it thwarts many of the traditional means of shutting down the scrapers.

It’s a wild week for the Copyright 2.0 Show as I record live from Dallas after giving my presentation at WordCamp.

iParadigms won a lawsuit filed by a four students alleging that their Turnitin service violated their copyright. But how will the ruling affect Webmasters and those of us dealing with indexing outside the classroom? The answer is unclear.

In a new video by HyveUp, content tracking company Attributor talks about their vision for the Web and the role that copying may play in the search economy.

It is time for another episode of the WordPress podcast but, this time, the tables are turned on me as I sit in the interviewee chair and get asked about content theft issues.

It is time for another episode of the WordPress podcast but, this time, the tables are turned on me as I sit in the interviewee chair and get asked about content theft issues.

It’s been another crazy week for copyright news with the EU generating much of the headlines. We have new proposals across Europe, beginnings for some lawsuits and endings for other as well as a special appearance by The VIllage People.

How does your search engine do when detecting plagiarism? I’ve tested five different search engines and how many matches of my work they find. These tests provide some surprising results and offer insight into which services are best for plagiarism detection.

Every tool has a purpose and Copyscape has its. Though weaker on verbatim plagiarism, it can help detect cases where the work has been rewritten and the regular search engines struggle to keep up.

Recently embarrassed by a very public plagiarism scandal, Associated Content has inked a deal with content-tracking service Attributor to both protect their material and detect plagiarists using their service.