China has created an Internet Court in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou to deal with online-related cases and disputes, according to local media. The new establishment will use blockchain to combat plagiarism for Internet writers.

Scientific and journalistic misconduct is a grave problem in China, which is flooded with plagiarism cases, fraudulent data, false CVs and fake reviews. Furthermore, writers publishing their work on the Internet are even more vulnerable to abuse than their offline peers as it is hard to track the originality of the content and protect their legal rights.

Online authors used to make screenshots as evidence of their copyright. However, this process lacked legal credibi…

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