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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An anonymous reader writes "The Conference Board of Canada has withdrawn all three reports on intellectual property after allegations this week by Michael Geist of plagiarism.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: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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