With the amount of celebrities caught in the most sordid internet scandals, you might think that most people would finally figure out that nothing stays hidden for long in today's online society. Nonetheless, let's take a look at 3 famous cases of plagiarism discovered and exposed by the almighty Internaut. A famous primatologist plagiarizes wikipedia [...]
Do you feel as if you don’t have enough time ? Do you believe you are not proficient enough to provide sufficient answers to the topic you’re dealing with? Copying and pasting others’ ideas from websites seems to be a common practice. So why shouldn’t you ? There are numerous reasons to plagiarise contents to [...]
Do you regularly browse on Internet from your computer, Smartphone or tablet and think the web holds no secrets for you ? Have you heard of Digital citizenship ? Do you believe to exhibit responsible behavior while online? This article helps you to be a smarter user of digital technologies. What is a digital citizen ? [...]
Plagiarism changed his life An IGN professional copies amateur's work by plagiarising it. Indeed, his opinion on the video game "Dead Cells" was identical to the opinion of an amateur youtuber called Deadite. As a reader of the IGN website, he realises the trickery and makes a video to ask for advices on the process to [...]
Boost your communication with our new posters to prevent plagiarism Compilatio wanted to renew its communication towards students by creating new plagiarism prevention posters. They look more modern with the cartoon and offbeat aspect. They feature two characters: a "superhero" not always super-inspired with his trainee. Against all odds, it is the trainee who puts in the right way his trainer [...]
Samsung VS Apple During seven years, the two companies have faced each other a several times about the question of plagiarism. The case has recently ended, and the American justice said that Apple won thanks to those patents : Colored icon on a black screen Rectangular front face with round angle on the smartphone The functionality [...]
National Exhibition of Scientific Projects While traveling across the Atlantic, the team of Compilatio visited the National Science Projects Expo hosted by Youth Science Canada. This event was a great opportunity to discover the 2 or 3 best projects by region among the 458 projects, and find the winning project. These projects were all done by [...]
"In 2007 the schools and media department (SEM) surveyed the market for similarity detection software to complete its provision, and this was the beginning of our constructive collaboration with Compilatio. […] all the 4,600 pieces of written work submitted by students every year are analysed by Compilatio […] a huge majority of our users are very satisfied, and [...]
The University of Geneva and its short video to prevent (acciental) plagiarism In order to fight plagiarism, the University of Geneva created a short video staging its own students. To enable students to better understand the notion of plagiarism as well as related issues, it is necessary to make students actors of their own prevention. The video of the [...]
What is happening in universities ? “I was completely shocked because I hadn’t realised I’d done it” When a student learnt that she had plagiarism in her essay, she said that she didn't even notice that she did it. In the end, she had to re-write her essay, while having a constant fear of plagiarism in her head. The [...]
