Tag Archives: Plagiarism

Smart Cars and Dumb Plagiarism

Yesterday, automotive API startup Smartcar posted a blog entry calling out its competitor, Otonomo, for allegedly plagiarism of its API documentation. The news was widely picked up by the tech press, including TechCrunch, which highlighted Smartcar’s provided examples and the … Continue reading

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Examining the Saturday Night Live Plagiarism Controversy

Content Warning: Due to the nature of the sketches involved, this post will include both adult language and sexual themes, in particular in embedded videos. On March 15, Variety reported that the the NBC program Saturday Night Live (SNL) is … Continue reading

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Czech politician Mala resigns over accusations of plagiarism

Tatana Mala, who briefly served as justice minister in the Czech Republic, resigned over possibleplagiarism issues in two theses (of widely divergent subject matter).One: Microclimatic conditions of rabbit breeding at the Mendel University (allegation of copying 11 pages of text … Continue reading

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Small Business Plagiarism On the Rise

Of all the areas of plagiarism and copyright infringement that I track, small business plagiarism is]one of the fastest growing types of plagiarism to be found, if not the fastest. Small business plagiarism and copyright infringement centers around one business, … Continue reading

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Why Fighting Plagiarism is Important

It's a story that I hear all-too-often. A professor, in this case Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, an Associate Professor at Stern School of Business of New York University, cracks down on plagiarism in his classroom and makes a push to catch … Continue reading

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