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First, TurnItIn required students to enter into a "binding agreement" when they uploaded papers to the site. Second, TurnItIn's use was "fair" according to the four factors found in US copyright law, with most weight being given to the "transformative" nature of what TurnItIn was doing with the papers
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23 Apr 09
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Michael WackerCourt flunks high schoolers' appeal on plagiarism database
Can plagiarism-busting website TurnItIn.com archive complete student papers for use in its detection database? Four high school students claimed copyright infringement, but a federal appeals courplagiarism copyright fairuse law education writing news turnitin
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22 Apr 09
Michelle KrillCan plagiarism-busting website TurnItIn.com archive complete student papers for use in its detection database? Four high school students claimed copyright infringement, but a federal appeals court says it's just fair use.
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Ann OroCourt decision in the U.S. on Turnitin.com and fair use of keeping student papers on file.
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21 Apr 09
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The Appeals Court agreed with this analysis. "Plaintiffs also argue that [Parent company] iParadigms’ use of their works cannot be transformative because the archiving process does not add anything to the work—TurnItIn merely stores the
work unaltered and in its entirety. This argument is clearly
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If you think this sounds a lot like the battle over search engine image thumbnails, you're not alone. The opinion noted the similarity to a case over Google Image Search, one in which judges had also concluded that Google's use of these copyrighted images was "transformative" even though they were not altered.
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Darcy GoshornCan plagiarism-busting website TurnItIn.com archive complete student papers for use in its detection database? Four high school students claimed copyright infringement, but a federal appeals court says it's just fair use.
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