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By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

Although the title of the article is Start-up aims to make plagiarism profitable, the text is more along the line
"start-up aims to make --being plagiarized-- profitable."

The article by Clifford-Marsh states:

Attributor's model is based on scanning web pages and identifying articles produced by participating publishers. It will then inform the ad network that sells inventory on the website that it must pass on a share of the revenue to the copyright holder.

However, in order to succeed it needs to work in partnership with ad networks run by Google and Yahoo!, which have been reluctant to back the venture. Attributor aims to take a cut of the ad money to run its service.

Full post as published by IPBiz on July 27, 2009 (boomark / email).