Digg has once again sparked controversy with its URL shortening service. Only now it has drawn the ire of both Webmasters and users alike.

Digg’s latest feature, the DiggBar, has caused a great deal of controversy, including many calling it outright content theft.

A recent article on the New York Times site drew the attention of the Web to excerpting and the difficulty defining good vs. bad use. It’s a touchy issue with no easy answers.

The rebirth of “The Plagiarism Checker” has made waves throughout social news sites and Twitter alike, but is the site worth the attention it has been getting?

The cease and desist letter has gone from a dying art to an art that is effectively dead. Why is that, what does it mean and what can be done?

After unofficially boycotting the site for several years, I’ve finally gotten around to creating my Facebook profile as well as a presence for Plagiarism Today.

The notion of fragmented conversations has drawn a lot of attention over the past few weeks. However, what are the real implications solutions to the problem?

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.

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 [...]

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Ryan McGinnis of Backing Winds posted an article detailing copyright policy of news aggregator Fark, which just underwent a major redesign.
According to McGinnis, when the site was redesigned a new legal policy was introduced one that lays claim to the copyright of all works posted to Fark.
Though [...]