Copyright Protection Business Model Expands, Plagiarizes Others

Techdirt has an amusing story about the expanding adoption of the RIAA-style business model of collecting settlement money from threats of litigation based on copyright infringement claims. This story comes with an amusing twist with the two cited companies, Davenport Lyons and ACS, being clearly related and ACS publishing an article with clearly plagiarized selections. Anything to make a buck I guess. "TorrentFreak noticed that an article apparently published by ACS Law was actually plagiarized from a variety of different sources, basically cut and pasted together with no credit or citations given at all. Remarkably, in some cases, articles with the exact opposite view of ACS Law were copied with paragraphs that just had an added sentence to the end which completely contradicted what the original article said."

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So the internet eats itself again

[Drakkenmensch]

It's about time those RIAA lawyers went after the REAL criminals - those dang RIAA lawyers!!!

amount demanded

[geniice]

hmm £600 thats about what getty and corbis ask when people use their images without permission. It there some standard legal fee that adds up to that amount somewhere?

It's not just the RIAA any more

[Anonymous Coward]

Monsanto has applied for a patent on pigs here and here

They are also seeking to enforce these patents on independant farms across the globe.

Don't just take my word for it - a small investment of your time will yield sufficient information to scare the hell out of anyone who can really see where this is going..

The RIAA was just the start - and all they wanted was our money - Monsanto wants nothing less that to dominate the worlds food supply. And our silence will allow them to succeed.

Re:Lawyers Rules, Sadly

[Chabil Ha']

Along that vein, having spoken with a number of lawyers, they all had admitted to 'borrowing' text from other agreements. One in particular took a fancy to Apple legal speak and regular used its legal copy, substituting its name for the company he was doing work. Why work for the hours you're billing? 1 min copy/paste/substitute, 100 hours playing golf to 'think' about what else to include.