Code Plagiarism - Technical Detection and Legal Prosecution

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The talk is discussing the basic problem of code theft and violation of licenses. As an example the popular case "ATK vs. WEKA" is retold. With this case as an example the coderecon tool is introduced to show how to identify stolen code with technical utilities. Afterwards the legal aspects of plagiarism and code theft is discussed. This includes current law and articles of a statute in Switzerland, Europe/EU and worldwide.