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21 Apr 09

Court flunks high schoolers' appeal on plagiarism database - Ars Technica

  • 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
    misguided," wrote the court.
  • 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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