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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An anonymous reader writes "The Conference Board of Canada has withdrawn all three reports on intellectual property after allegations this week by Michael Geist of plagiarism.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. Yawn by bonch · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We're all supposed to laugh at the "irony" of this because we all hate intellectual property and copyright, remember? Even though the GPL depends on it...