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Given past conversation I thought the list might be interested that
Turnitin recently won its first serious court challenge over violating
student's copyright. Interestingly the case did not turn on their
"finger-printing" technology but instead that:
"student essays in their normal form were viewed as having no market,
and their reuse by turnitin did not in any way diminish the students'
"incentive for creativity"-namely, their grades."
Summary Article:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080326-plagiarism-screener-gets-p
assing-grade-in-copyright-lawsuit.html
Court Decision:
http://www.iparadigms.com/iParadigms_03-11-08_Opinion.pdf
Sadly it was a summary judgment, so someone may push to take another
suite to a jury, but the citation of the Google vs Perfect 10 case, puts
a fairly big nail in the coffin of copyright based arguments.
_J
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