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Big Brother Gets Slammed! - Plagiarism Checker Sued For Copyright Infringement
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Turnitin has long fancied itself to be the plagiarism police, allowing colleges and universities to check the originality of students submissions. Well, in a bizarre twists of fate, the tables have been turned and two students are now suing Turnitin for copyright infringement.
Turnitin uploades students writings and has accrued a large database of work… students are now questioning the legalities of this practice, maintaining that the very plagiarism police are copyright offenders themselves.
And so the battle ensues…
... there was some discussion over whether or not, Turnitin, a popular plagiarism checker that many schools and universities use, was violating students' copyrights. The program worked by comparing any uploaded works to a large database of previous works. However, it would then add those new works to the larger database.
Many students began to question not just why they were being treated as criminals first, but also why Turnitin was allowed to use their content in its database without first licensing the works from the students. While there had been occasional stories wondering something similar over the past few years, now it appears that two high school students have decided to step up and sue the company for copyright infringement.
(techdirt)
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