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[–] Babalugats@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now we need something like nightshade for text.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

plagiarism is an academic crime, not a civil tort.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

plagiarism is neither a civil tort nor a criminal offense.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago (2 children)

Plagiarism is an infringement against copyright.

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 1 year 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 1 year ago

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