[telecom] Site plagiarizes blog posts, then files DMCA takedown on originals

Site plagiarizes blog posts, then files DMCA takedown on originals Stories about a disgraced researcher get pulled by WordPress.

by John Timmer Feb 5 2013 Ars Technica

A dizzying story that involves falsified medical research, plagiarism, and legal threats came to light via a DMCA takedown notice today. Retraction Watch, a site that followed (among many other issues) the implosion of a Duke cancer researcher's career, found many of its articles on the topic pulled by WordPress, its host. The reason? A small site based in India apparently copied all of the posts, claimed them as their own, and then filed a DMCA takedown notice to get the originals pulled from their source. As of now, the originals are still missing as their actual owners seek to have them restored.

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