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23 Mar 08

Turnitin wins important victory in fight to combat plagiarism (and the bloat of copyright) (©ollectanea)

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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52 fair use iparadigms turnitin

  • 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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