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[-] Babalugats@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago

Is it safe to assume that every single author (apart from the ones that cannot prove their works were in any of those archives at the time) can sue meta for plagiarism and theft?

[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 years ago

You can but you won’t win unless you can prove anything, so good luck with that.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 2 years ago

Even if you can, you're fighting against a company that has annual revenue similar to some country's GDP.

No company should be allowed to get this big.

[-] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago

*unless it's product is collectively owned by the public and for the public as a civil service.

[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 6 points 2 years ago

Now we need something like nightshade for text.

[-] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

That's a far harder problem than it sounds unfortunately.

[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago

Yes. I see no feasible solution to this, without impacting the reader experience.

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

plagiarism is an academic crime, not a civil tort.

[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago

It’s a copyright violation to use someone’s work without permission. (Regardless of your feelings about copyright or intellectual property)

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

plagiarism is neither a civil tort nor a criminal offense.

[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

Back when I worked as a designer, using work without paying for usage rights leads to exposure of being civilly sued for copyright violations.

You’re wrong. Confidently wrong.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 years ago

if you were sued civilly for copyright violations, that's not plagiarism. That's copyright infringement. plagiarism is something else.

[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

Plagiarism is an infringement against copyright.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

if I plagiarize The Bible, that has nothing to do with copyright. it's still plagiarism.

[-] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Bible is well past the copyright period which IIRC is 70 years in America. The Bible is free use at this point. No different than the original Mickey Mouse which is also out of copyright protection. Or the Mona Lisa.

The fact that you reference the Bible of all books shows how unbelievably confidently incorrect you are. Are you chatgpt?

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 years ago

you don't seem to know what plagiarism is, so I don't see the point in continuing this conversation.

[-] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago

no it's not. it's an academic crime.

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