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Conference Board Admits Plagiarism, Pulls Copyright Report

Posted by timothy on from the look-forward-eagerly-to-future-reports dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Conference Board of Canada has withdrawn all three reports on intellectual property after allegations this week by Michael Geist of plagiarism. The organization now admits that its report on copyright was plagiarized from US copyright lobby groups."

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  1. Re:LMAO by Jurily · · Score: 4, Interesting

    And pure irony on the part of the article!

    I, for one, will mention this incident whenever the topic moves to copyright infringement. They lost the moral high ground too, now.

  2. Re:Canada has a blacklist? by Sj0 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yeah, but due to the law of unintended consequences, Canada has incredibly liberal copyright laws thanks to earlier lobbying efforts by the music and movie industries.

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    It's been a long time.
  3. Re:LMAO by Faylone · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not the first time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Copyright

  4. Re:LMAO by Jurily · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's not the first time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Copyright

    I love the double standard: when we do it, we're filthy thieving pirates, if they do it, it's "just an oversight".