Plagiarism trap
A plagiarism trap is a harmless error that is deliberately built into a database in a harmless place and with the help of which unauthorized copies can be tracked down.
Plagiarism traps in encyclopedias or dictionaries , as takeover indicators that can be found quickly, make it possible to check competing publications that appear later. Even fake encyclopedia articles can be used as plagiarism cases, but these primarily humorous intentions have (such as the stone louse ).
Many publishers of telephone books or address registers use fictitious entries as plagiarism traps. Since nobody is looking for it, there is no harm to the user. For example, Telekom Austria adds a nonexistent telephone number to the phone book in each area code. If this telephone number appears on telephone directory CDs, you have direct action against the publisher of the CD for copyright infringement . Control addresses fulfill this purpose in address databases. List brokers can add certain addresses to control the frequency of use of sold address files that do not correspond to the target group purchased and whose incoming mail is checked.
Fictitious small streets ( Trap Streets ) are integrated into cartographic works and geodata as plagiarism traps .
In digital images , digital watermarks can help to prove an unauthorized distribution or alteration of an image.
A canary trap (from English and espionage jargon , there called canary trap ) is set by having different copies of a document or email have different details. Either in the text or in documents, fountain pen blunders or other scan artifacts (generated by means of foil when copying). Is a "leak" in the company copies of his documents or e-mails on, based on this "can Leimrute " (see also Birdtrap ) be elicited the owner of the first copy.
