The Global Grind and The Practice of Content Scraping
Yesterday evening Black Web 2.0 was invited to an online chat conducted by Patrick O’Keefe of iFroggy Network and Johnathan Bailey of PlagarismToday.com regarding the practice of “Content Scraping.” Patrick recently discovered that Global Grind was copying all of his articles in full, submitting them to Google News, and displaying them in on their website. [...]
Read MoreParaphrasing News Stories: Copyright Infringement or Permissible Fair Use
Previously I wrote an article on “Giving Credit When Credit is Due” and it addressed receiving permission from a copyright owner when using their works. However, it has recently come to my attention that when bloggers or other journalists re-report news stories from other sources, there is a lot of re-phrasing, re-production or use of [...]
Read MoreHow Ed Lover Can Win His C’Mon Son Domain Name Dispute
Yesterday this site posted a story about Ed Lover’s dispute over the domain name C’mon Son. Basically Ed Lover has been using the phrase “C’mon Son” as a catchy phrase during his You Tube videos and to name his video episodes. Arguably we can conclude that Ed Lover does have a trademark right to the [...]
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