Students Protest Turnitin.com 1038
StupidSexyFlanders writes "The Washington Post ran a story about students protesting their school's use of anti-plagiarism site Turnitin.com, which checks papers they've written against a database of 22 million other papers. From the article:
"Members of the new Committee for Students' Rights said they do not cheat or condone cheating. But they object to Turnitin's automatically adding their essays to the massive database, calling it an infringement of intellectual property rights."
Statistically speaking, it's likely that a sizable percentage of these students download copyrighted material from the Internet. Do you think any of them are concerned about IP rights then?"
Re:Well (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Intellectual property (Score:1, Funny)
Google only indexes content that has been made publicly available on the internet. Turnitin appears to be actively soliciting the violation of student's copyright. This is known as criminal contributory copyright infringement. The teachers or school administrators who turn in these copyrighted materials to turnitin are also guilty of copyright infringement. Thanks to the RIAA/MPAA, copyright infringement is not just a civil case but also a criminal case. When your teachers and school administrators are criminals, what are you expected to learn?
Let's try this on the **AA folks (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A couple hypotheticals: (nope)... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:my school (Score:3, Funny)
Re:my school (Score:5, Funny)
You are suspended for three weeks, with pay.
Cool links. [blogspot.com]
Re:Quality, not quantity (Score:3, Funny)
It's an interesting thought, but it brings to mind a quote I heard years ago: "Do you know what they call a medical student who graduates with the lowest passing grade in his class? They call him a doctor."
Re:my school (Score:3, Funny)
I see that one of the courses that she missed was "Ethics"...