Posts Tagged ‘Slashdot’

The DMCA on Social News Sites

By Jonathan Bailey • May 1st, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, DMCA Seven, Legal Issues, Personal Experiences

Previously, I reported about how plagiarized content can create unique challeges on social news sites such as Digg and Reddit.
The article detailed a case involving the site Celebrity Hack, a celebrity gossip blog. The site had one of its articles, entitled “37 Famously Stupid Celebrity Quotes” submitted to Digg only to be buried for unknown [...]



Farked, BoingBoinged and More

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 27th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Housekeeping

Yesterday was a very eventful day for this site. The article about Fark’s Copyright Policy made an appearance on the front page of Fark.com. Shortly after that, it was featured as an update to the BoingBoing article on the subject and even appeared on Wired.com’s Epicenter Blog.
Needless to say, traffic was extremely high yesterday and [...]



Social News: A New Plagiarism Concern

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 19th, 2007 • Category: Articles, News, Prevention

If you need another reason to worry about content theft, consider the recent case involving the gossip blog Celebrity Hack.
About two weeks ago, an article on the site entitled “37 Famously Stupid Celebrity Quotes” was submitted to Digg. The story reached the front page briefly but was buried for unknown reasons.
Yesterday, a much lower-quality scraped [...]