Plagiarism/copyright infringement from RL in NS Sport

[Liventia]

I'm not quite sure what this falls under, exactly; I know there's a bit in the OSRS about copyrights and users "owning the copyright to everything they post here".

The thread in question is viewtopic.php?f=7&t=445080.
The region's RMB suggests they are using real-life World Cup results to produce scores for their tournament. In itself not actionable as a broken rule (although I would question, then, whether it falls under NS Sport or should be moved to P2TM or somewhere else, as it's not then a "sports RP"?).

However, the "match reports" in the thread have been taken wholesale from real-life news reports about the matches, with just names of players and countries changed. It's copyright infringement/plagiarism, and could pose a legal issue.

See for example this post: viewtopic.php?p=34200175#p34200175
From the first game, the report is nearly word-for-word (aside from teams/players) for this report from 90 Min. Using the closing sentence as an example:
Post: "There would be no time left for the host to correct their mistake, leaving Malayan Tiger with a narrow 1-0 victory in the end"
Original: "There would be no time left for the Lions to correct their mistake, leaving Team Melli with a narrow 1-0 victory in the end"

And the second game report is ripped from this AFP report about Portugal vs Spain in real life.
Post: "Three minutes after that, Zariff’s glorious effort from 22 yards made it 3-2, his half-volley curling into the net off the left-hand post. That looked to be that, but Zulkifli had the last word."
Original: "Three minutes after that, Nacho's glorious effort from 22 yards made it 3-2, his half-volley curling into the net off the left-hand post. That looked to be that, but Ronaldo had the last word"

I haven't searched for where the other two reports are ripped off from, but there's a pattern here and it should probably be stopped?

EDIT: Report 3 in this post comes from the New York Times; report 4 from 90 Min as well.

[Kyrusia]

I've locked the thread as spam, considering it is essentially just quoting large portions of real-world news, not really roleplaying. I have not enforced this under the auspices of plagiarism/copyright infringement, as, simply put, we do not know what The New York TImes, 90 Mins, et alia may feel in such an instance; if they were to get in touch with us, as sometimes happens, we'll address that then. What this clearly is, distinct from that, however, is spam, and I have handled it as such.

Thanks for the report.

[The Plough Islands]

Apologies for the gravedig but this is relating to the same competition, and unfortunately the same issues of spam/plagiarism...there are a few posts in the tournament thread currently which have the same issue of heavily copying RL articles and swapping the names around. I don't think thread locking would be merited as there are people trying and succeeding in using entirely original content, but there does seem to be something of a problem involving several posters;

Match report lifted from BBC Sport

Match report lifted from Newcastle United

Roleplay lifted from FIFA

Roleplay lifted from FIFA

Roleplay lifted from Esquire

Roleplay lifted from euronews

I'm not ignorant of the fact this is probably partially due to a language barrier, and their English is certainly a lot better than my Malay, but I don't think plagiarism is the way to overcome this.

[Audioslavia]

Addressed here