Month: November 2005
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When Fans Infringe Copyright
Applegeeks, a Web comic produced by Hawk and Ananth, found itself at the center of a copyright controversy when fan…
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The Plagiarism Scandal Without a Victim
When Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer reported that Ohio Rep. Sherrod Brown had plagiarized from a blogger when writing Sen. Mike…
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Behind Splogging: Why Sploggers Splog
Sploggers are almost certainly the most prolific plagiarists on the Web. A handful of determined and capable sploggers can swipe…
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Tips for Using Google Alerts
The Google Alerts feature is probably the most useful tool in battling plagiarism to come out in some time. It…
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Punditry Sunday: Sony, DRM and Me
Sony went too far. While the notion of protecting one’s rights might seem noble, stealthily installing poorly-written, insecure and crash-prone…
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Blogiarism?
While doing my usual searches for plagiarism information, I ran across a term that, though almost a year old, was…
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Splogs: Plagiarism En Masse
The term splog, or spam blog, is defined as a blog that’s designed solely to either promote another site, gain…
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