Results tagged “plagiarism”

In 2005, Maclean's—the Canadian newsmagazine—got a redesign. In 2007, Time—the American newsmagazine—got one, too. And Maclean's, in an editor's note at the time, pretended to not be pissed off at their American competitor but obviously were, suggesting that Time had swiped all their good new ideas, like "more text, smaller pictures and headlines....black, white, red, yellow type...[and] boxes at the top of the cover with headlines and pictures."

As of Friday, the epic, two-year-long dispute between Trevor Brown and Crystal Castles over the band's unauthorized use of Brown's image of Madonna has quickly and decisively come to an end.

Photo of Alice Glass of Crystal Castles by jean hambourg. Used under a Creative Commons license.

Photos of CablePulse24's broadcast on July 25, 2007, courtesy of Joel Charlebois.

When NOW featured Crystal Castles as their cover story two months ago, implicit in the whole article were three little words that get tossed around again and again when people talk about the band: next big thing.

Last Friday, Torontoist published an article about Posterchild's latest project––fake subway fliers. On Sunday, the Sun published an article about the same topic, with a paragraph that was identical to a portion of Torontoist's article.

Hey! Torontoist just got ripped off by The Sun.

One more piece of bad news for Jane Pitfield's campaign: besides having one of the worst glamour shots we've ever seen on her media page (see above), whoever's writing her blog for her is cribbing Spacing Votes, Spacing Magazine's election blog. Details are a bit scarce, but what we know for sure so far is that for several days a recent entry on Jane Pitfield's blog copied one of John Lorinc's - almost word for word - without credit.