RE: Bozzlife: The down-low on digital copyright
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Plagiarism is a big problem as can be hard to track down. People will manipulate images and text can be translated or put through special tools to hide the source. Automated checks can only do so much. I think we need to stay vigilant and call out offenders.
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I agree. It is just interesting how many people just don't know any better and many of the front ends don't address it properly, so they go unchecked for quite some time. It makes it harder to call them out on it if they have been doing it for years without comment.
It actually amazes me that people do manage to track down some cases of copying. People who get caught out should be watched more.
There are cases where artists make their own version of work by others. That can be valid, but they have to give credit to the original artist. That can apply to music covers too. Ideally the original artists would be on Hive and we could give them a cut of the rewards.
I was just talking about that with a colleague in EOS Detroit the other day. I think stuff like you are talking about falls under the parody realm and there is a little more leniency there. I agree with you about the catching it thing. There is so much content out there and so much published here daily that it takes a real bloodhound to track down the plagiarized content.