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• 26 Mar 08
  

  Dr Christoph

  turnitin copyright toblog

• 25 Mar 08
  

  lvandeput

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• 24 Mar 08
  

  Mathieu Plourde

  I always thought that it was important (and so advised) to give the students a choice up front, when they signed up for the class, so that they understood that use of Turnitin was a term of the offering of the class.

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• 23 Mar 08
  

  Jonathan Bailey

  To the relief of many a high school, college and university administrator, Turnitin's system for helping teachers identify possible cases of plagiarism got a pass from the judge earlier this month. AV v. iParadigms (District Court, Eastern District of Virginia).

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  • Thus, while I would hesitate to cite this analysis, it does give us some insight into how this court views the 4-part test. The analysis leans heavily on recent cases like Perfect 10 v. Google, that compare speculative harms to copyright owners with the enormous public benefit of transformative uses like indexing and come to the entirely unremarkable conclusion that such uses are pretty much exactly what fair use is supposed to be all about.

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