A reader notified me over the weekend, that briefs were filed and distributed on March 6, 2009 in RJ Reynolds' writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court in the Star Scientific v. RJ Reynolds case.  The following is the Court's quick reply as presented in a Star Scientific press re...

Ladies clothing chain Forever 21 was spied selling this T-shirt that uses the logo to Minor Threat's 1983 all-time classic Out Of Step, a fact that should immediately set off alarms for anyone familiar with the general politics of the band and the record label that administers its back catalog and a...

A recent post in the New York Times entitled “Copyright Challenge for Sites That Excerpt” has caused a controversy on the Web. The article, by Brian Stetler, talks about the frustrations of copyright holders, specifically large media companies, with sites such as the Huffington Post and ...

This is daily column on Plagiarism Today where the site brings you three of the days biggest, most important copyright and plagiarism news links. If you want to offer your feedback on the column, use the contact form or just follow me on Twitter at @plagiarismtoday. 1: Shahanda Moursy sues the RIAA ...

I’ve declared this the Year of Original Content and I’m inviting you to help join the fight against those who abuse our content. Scam, spam, splog, and scraper blogs are big business, taking in $3.2 billion dollars in 2007 just in the United States. Russia, China, Zimbabwe, and other cou...

We have all heard of the Pirate Bay, the bit torrent search engine site. It was sued by some biggies of the MPAA like MGM Pictures and Sony BMG, and the case began its trial yesterday in the Stockholm district court. A police investigation took place way back in 2006 and the current trial is conside...

Lijit is a popular and well-respected search application for bloggers. Many sites, including this one, use it because it not only drastically improves upon the default WordPress search, but also because it allows searchers to pull content from sites within the blogger’s network, including soci...

As I mentioned yesterday, it has come en vogue for programmers to create simple plagiarism checkers that feed queries to Google or another search engine. The other tool commonly created is non-repudiation service, such as Numly, MyFreeCopyright, etc. that register works in their database to provide ...

Update x2: This article has been updated, see the information below. Hammerfall is a well-known role-playing game for Facebook. The application has nearly a quarter of a million monthly users and is rated (currently) at a 4.5. However, the game and its creators, Dennis and Mark Kimbell, have found t...

Up until literally a few hours ago, the New York Times Co. and GateHouse media seemed to be destined for an epic courtroom clash over which much of the Web’s linking practices hung into balance. The dispute was over a “hyper local” site created under the boston.com banner, which is...