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• 08 Aug 09
  

  Patrick O'Keefe
  • A two-year battle over copyright infringement between four students and Turnitin, a commerical plagiarism-detection service
  • The high-school students first sued iParadigms, Turnitin's parent company, in 2007 for copyright infringement, saying the company took their papers against their will and then made a profit from them.
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  • • March 2008 that the district-court judge said Turnitin's actions fell under fair use, ruling that the company “makes no use of any work’s particular expressive or creative content beyond the limited use of comparison with other works." He also said the new use “provides a substantial public benefit.”
    • The April opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the lower court's decision, and sent back to the lower court a complaint by iPardigm under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that stated that one of the students had gained unauthorized access to Turnitin
• 06 Aug 09
  

  Jonathan Bailey

  121 turnitin iparadigms fairuse

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  Lorie Shuck

  turnitin copyright

• 04 Aug 09
  

  Katie Elson Anderson

  plagiarism

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