January 2009
13 posts
Section 108 Spinner →
Free Online Plagiarism checkers for Finding... →
Searchmaze Plagiarism Search Tool →
copygator.com - Blog content monitoring and... →
Copyright Action →
What is copyright? How do I protect my work? What do I do if someone asks to use my photographs? What can I do if someone uses them without asking? Why should I even care?
Prince Rebuffed In Italian Plagiarism Case →
An Italian court has ruled that Prince’s 1994 hit “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” was plagiarized from a song by two Italian writers. However, it could take several years for a definitive ruling in the case, which has already dragged on since the 1990s.
Students' work used in scam to fool NASA →
STUDENT assignments from the University of Wollongong were used without the students’ knowledge as part of an alleged ruse to fool the US Government and the space agency NASA into handing over millions of dollars for futuristic scientific research.
An Essay Wasn’t His, Concedes Neale Donald Walsch,... →
During a dress rehearsal, he wrote, a group of children spelled out the title of a song, “Christmas Love,” with each child holding up a letter. One girl held the “m” upside down, so that it appeared as a “w,” and it looked as if the group was spelling “Christ Was Love.” It was a heartwarming Christmas story from a writer known for his spiritual teachings. Except it never happened — to him.
The Idée Blog » Blog Archive » Everywhere Girl,... →
If you’ve ever worried about photos from your past coming back to haunt you, get to know the story of the Everywhere Girl. Over a decade ago she was a young actress posing for a series of stock photos. While she’s no Mona Lisa, in recent years her photos have made their way into royalty-free collections and crept into print and web designs the world over.
December 2008
4 posts
Tom’s MAD Blog » Blog Archive » Shoe Throwing... →
I’ve seen my artwork stolen off the internet and used as samples for dozens of live caricaturists all around the world. I’ve seen it put on postage stamps from South American and former U.S.S.R. countries and sold in sets on eBay. I’ve seen it being used on many websites and being sold as prints online. I’ve even seen a caricature I did of Jesse Ventura tattooed on somebody’s shoulder. This one...
Social Plagiarism? Might Be, But SOOOO Stupid →
So, if one were going to plagiarize someone - wait. Let me make something abundantly clear here. Plagiarize something means to steal someone’s intellectual property - writing etc. and reproduce it, not only without attribution, but under your own (the thief’s) name. So, again. If one were to sink low enough to plagiarize someone, Brent doesn’t seem like he would make a smart candidate for...
How to Fight and Prevent Copyright Infringement →
Some fool stole several of my posts and reprinted them on his blog. It started with one post and then daily I was noticing he was adding one after the other of my posts on his blog, a total copyright infringement.
Watermarktool →
Watermark Tool is the free online watermarking software that allows you to quickly and easily protect your images with a visible watermark. With the many watermarking options available, you’re able to personalize your images in a variety of ways - including text size, color, and position.
November 2008
8 posts
This is Why You Don't Steal from Cracked |... →
Like Professor Young, I don’t like plagiarists. Also like Professor Young, I am an ardent supporter of less-than-conventional means of punishment. Unlike Professor Young, though, I do not want to get fired, so let me state for the record that I had nothing to do with any of the immature examples of retaliation you will soon read about in this article. I can’t imagine who might be responsible.
New Copyright Clearance Center to Help... →
Copyright Clearance Center, the world’s largest provider of copyright licensing solutions, today announced the beta launch of Ozmo (www.ozmo.com), a web-based service that makes it easy for independent content creators to license the use of their work for commercial purposes and for content users to tap into the wealth of user generated content found online.
The Daily Texan - University fires teacher for... →
Texas A&M International University in Laredo fired a professor for publishing the names of students accused of plagiarism
Israeli Candidate Borrows a (Web) Page From Obama... →
Click on the Russian-language version of the campaign Web site of Benjamin Netanyahu, the conservative Likud leader running for prime minister of Israel, and up pops a picture of him with Barack Obama. On the Hebrew version, Mr. Obama is not pictured. But he is, in fact, everywhere.
Nice !@#$ing SERPs, G. →
As you can see, you have to wade through 6 scraper SERPs to get to the post you’re looking for
“Beware craigslist ads looking for you to “submit any old article for...”
– Twitter / sharperwords: Beware craigslist ads look …
Lazy Publishers Rejoice: Get Your Content From... →
Demand Media launches Pluck on Demand tonight - a new service that will add contextually relevant content to publishing websites via an easy to use widget. In other words, if you don’t have enough content, Pluck on Demand will add appropriate stuff to your site for you.
Flickr Strips Copyright Metadata - James Duncan... →
Flickr has a wee problem. While it loves the metadata that is in your photographs when you upload them, merrily adding the camera information to its database, adding keywords as tags, and the like, it then turns around and does something absolutely horrible. It proceeds to strip the most of the metadata out of every resized image it makes from your originally uploaded photograph, including the all...
October 2008
9 posts
Christian Science Monitor says goodbye to print —... →
Last year, a columnist for MediaPost asked which major newspaper would be the first to turn its back on print and try to create a future as an online-only publication, and now he has his answer: the Christian Science Monitor, a 100-year-old newspaper that has won seven Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, said today that it will no longer publish a daily print edition. The paper, which is financed by...
Old Media Isn’t Completely Deaf: The Guardian to... →
The Guardian, one of the UK’s biggest newspapers, is breaking ranks with its dead tree counterparts and offering up its content in full-text RSS feeds. As the Google Reader team notes in its blog post about the move, The Guardian in turn becomes the first major newspaper in the world to do so.
The TWiT Netcast Network with Leo Laporte →
Hosts: Denise Howell, Colette Vogele, Evan Brown and Karl Susman The McCain-YouTube DMCA takedown letter discussion, LimeWire, and more.
Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets «... →
Prompted in part by a presentation I have to give tomorrow as an OU eLearning community session (I hope some folks turn up - the 90 minute session on Mashing Up the PLE - RSS edition is the only reason I’m going in…), and in part by Scott Leslie’s compelling programme for a similar duration Mashing Up your own PLE session (scene scetting here: Hunting the Wily “PLE”), I started having a tinker...
Punya Mishra’s Web » Blog Archive » Update III →
David Jiles Ph.D.’s book is no longer available on the Lulu.com website. Another example of delete and hope the world will forget that I didn’t do my homework. See here and here for more on this issue.
Google Confirms RSS For Web Search Results →
Google has confirmed for Search Engine Land that they’ll soon start offering RSS feeds for web search results. When it happens, the RSS feeds will be an extension of Google Alerts, which currently only allow notification by email.
Right back at ya, CAPTCHA: bad guys crack Gmail,... →
According to the list of features that accompanies the team’s latest release, XRumer 5.0a is now capable of bypassing Gmail’s defenses. The list states: “Now works with gmail.com: auto-registering mailboxes, downloading letters (yes - we’ve ‘f**d’ Google Captcha ;).” There’s no further information on how the program has accomplished this feat, but...
Glam Teams With GumGum To Serve Free, Legal Images →
Image licensing platform GumGum has scored a deal to serve free legal images across Glam Media’s publishing network. Glam publishers will have access to photos from Splash News’ catalog of celebrity images, many of which run from $75-500 apiece under standard licensing deals. In lieu of these fees, GumGum will allow publishers to display their images with ad overlays free of charge (publishers...
September 2008
3 posts
Why Google Knol will never be as good as... →
The project suffers two critical flaws that promote poorly written, poorly sourced, and plagiarized articles. First, Knol diminishes community involvement, giving authors complete control over their postings. Second, it rewards authors with advertising lucre, creating a huge incentive for people to post as much content as possible. That probably helps explain why so much of Knol’s content is...
New World Notes: Have Virtual Content Theft... →
Recently a well-known fashionista showed me the texture of a skirt design, saying it was lifted from another more famous designer. She showed me that one, and I squinted and squinted between the two, and try as I might, couldn’t recognize the former as a copy as an obvious copy of the latter.
Tynt: Stealing Site Owner’s Content & Refuses to... →
If you’ve seen Tynt, you may think it’s cool. That is of course if you’re a 10th grader and your parents are hip enough to let you on something other than MySpace or Facebook.
August 2008
10 posts
“Ultimately Captchas are useless for spam because they’re designed to tell...”
– Captcha is broken - now what? | Technology | The Guardian
WatchWeblog Tools Videos: Your Wordpress Site & Google Duplicate Content
Photobucket, Target sign photo-printing deal | The... →
Through the partnership, members of Photobucket can directly order photos for pickup at most Target stores (presumably any Targets that don’t have photo-printing stations would be the exception). Typically, the photos will be ready within an hour.
Photo Business News & Forum: Heineken In Hot Water... →
Heineken is the latest Virgin Mobile to fall into the Flickr trap with their allegedly infringing uses of a large number of photos from the Flickr site…
WatchWelcome! - TinEye
Patterico’s Pontifications » New York Times... →
The New York Times’s Opinionator blog directly quotes all nine paragraphs of Justin Levine’s post on the National Enquirer.
Controlling copies isn't necessarily part of an... →
Danny O’Brien’s new essay “Copyright, Fraud and Window Taxes (No, not that Windows)” makes a really good point about the way that people view copying on the Internet: copying is a ho-hum, every day thing (after all, in order for you to read these words, they had to be copied dozens, if not hundreds, of times) but “passing off” (plagiarism, fraud) is more...
Dude, you stole my article. - By Jody Rosen -... →
The saga began in the classical manner: with an e-mail about Jimmy Buffett. Several weeks ago, I received a note from a Slate reader drawing my attention to an article published in March 2008 in the Bulletin, a free alternative weekly in Montgomery County, Texas, north of Houston. “I believe your … profile of musician Jimmy Buffett was reproduced wholesale without attribution,” the...
DRM products for document security - information... →
I’m no fan of DRM, but those who are interested may want to look at Locklizard.
“LockLizard is a DRM (digital rights management) company that specializes in document security and copy protection for pdf, flash, ebooks, and web based content.”
FeedBlitz: Extortion as a Business Model →
The general idea seems to be splogging as a service - that is they are offering as a service (a paid service, to be exact) the ability to register a subdomain of FeedBlitz in which you can syndicate your existing content to a customizable page, or pretty much the same thing you can do on any number of free webhosting solutions, but for $9.99 a month.
July 2008
5 posts
Anvato Develops Impressive Technology to Combat... →
Content ID is made of two primary technologies, which carry the names of Perceptual Signature(TM) and Perceptual Search (TM). The first is a tool that Anvato says “simulates… human perception.” The latter overlaps the first and both seeks and identifies content for marked similarities. What’s more, the company claims to accomplish its tasks using what is quite literally described as a six-computer...
Infothought: Google Knol Ranking - Google NOT... →
I’ve not bothered to write an obligatory “Google Knol” post, but I’m going to try to weigh in on the Great Google Knol Ranking Controversy, which is whether Google is artificially boosting the ranking of Knol articles. My contention: 1. Short answer: No 2. Slightly longer answer: Yes, but not in the way you think.