Plagiarism Today

Name

Plagiarism Today

Legal name

Jonathan Bailey (Individual/Operator)

Website

https://plagiarismtoday.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Copyright Education and Advisory

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (513120), All Other Publishers (513199)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Copyright Services & Content Protection (BPAHAMAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Plagiarism Detection & Similarity Checking (EDAFALAA)

Keywords

• Copyright education
• Plagiarism prevention
• DMCA guidance
• Content protection
• Intellectual property

Headquarters

HQ city

New Orleans

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Advertising: The site displays advertisements through Google Analytics and other ad networks to monetize its readership.
2. Copyright Consulting Services: Jonathan Bailey offers consulting and expert witness services through CopyByte, a separate business entity, providing DMCA agent services, takedown notices, and copyright consultation. The Plagiarism Today site promotes these services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Plagiarism Today is a blog and information resource that publishes articles, news, and educational content about online plagiarism, copyright infringement, DMCA procedures, and content theft. Founded in 2005 by Jonathan Bailey, the site also provides stock template letters for copyright enforcement, a content reprint/permissions service, and promotes affiliated copyright consulting and expert witness services offered through CopyByte.

Product overview

Plagiarism Today is a single-product content publishing platform focused on copyright and plagiarism education. The site publishes articles, news, and educational resources about plagiarism, copyright law, and DMCA procedures. It offers related consulting services through CopyByte, provides stock template letters for copyright enforcement, and facilitates content reprint permissions. The site is operated by Jonathan Bailey and has been running since 2005.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Plagiarism Today Blog Freely accessible online blog and information resource publishing articles, news, and educational content on plagiarism, copyright infringement, DMCA procedures, and content theft. Targeted at webmasters, content creators, and copyright holders, and supplemented by a free daily email newsletter, RSS feed, and active social media presence.
• Reprint & Permissions Service

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CopyBytecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJonathan Bailey operates CopyByte, a copyright consulting and expert witness service, which is promoted on Plagiarism Today. The site features consulting service advertisements and CopyByte provides complementary services including DMCA agent services, expert witness work, and copyright consultation that serve Plagiarism Today's audience.
• Music Fights Fraud Alliance (MFFA)minorOthersAlliance formed in June 2023 by CD Baby, Downtown, TuneCore, Believe, and DistroKid along with streaming services to fight streaming fraud and streaming manipulation. Plagiarism Today reports on this alliance in the context of music fraud news.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Electronic Frontier Foundation: The EFF is a prominent digital rights organization that frequently publishes commentary on copyright, DMCA, and online content issues. It addresses overlapping themes with Plagiarism Today from a different (often more advocacy-oriented) angle and reaches a related audience.
• Copyscape: Copyscape is a widely used plagiarism detection tool frequently referenced in Plagiarism Today's articles. While not a content publisher, it sits in the same plagiarism/copyright ecosystem that Plagiarism Today covers and serves the same audience segment of webmasters and content creators.

Broad incumbents

• World Intellectual Property Review: World Intellectual Property Review is a trade publication covering global IP news, analysis, and policy with a broader professional audience than Plagiarism Today. It competes for the same copyright/IP audience attention at greater institutional scale.
• Copyright Alliance: Copyright Alliance is a non-profit advocacy organization that publishes educational content about copyright law and policy aimed at creators - directly overlapping with Plagiarism Today's audience and topic focus, but operating at institutional scale.
• Lexology: Lexology is a major legal news aggregation and publishing platform that syndicates IP/copyright content from law firms worldwide. It overlaps with Plagiarism Today as a destination for copyright/IP news but operates at vastly larger scale with a broader legal focus.
• IPWatchdog: IPWatchdog is a much larger and more established IP news, analysis, and advisory publication covering patents, trademarks, and copyrights. It overlaps with Plagiarism Today's copyright coverage but operates as a broad incumbent with a larger editorial team and broader scope.

Direct peers

• Patently-O: Patently-O is a long-established patent law blog founded by Dennis Crouch that combines expert analysis, news commentary, and practitioner-focused content. It is structurally comparable to Plagiarism Today as an individual-driven IP specialist blog with strong authority in its niche.
• The IPKat: The IPKat is a long-running IP law blog covering copyright, patent, and trademark news in a commentary format. Like Plagiarism Today, it is a niche specialist blog that pairs news commentary with community/audience-building for IP professionals and enthusiasts.
• Plagiarism.org: Plagiarism.org is an educational resource about plagiarism and plagiarism detection that serves a similar content mission - informing webmasters, educators, and content owners about plagiarism issues - and overlaps directly with Plagiarism Today's audience and topics.
• Trademark Blog: The Trademark Blog (formerly TTABlog) is a long-running niche IP blog by practitioner Martin Schwimmer covering trademark and copyright issues - a directly comparable individual-expert content site serving the IP/copyright community.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/JonathanBailey
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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/plagiarism-today

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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