Fair Use Bolstered by Student-Cheating Detection Service
Recently, I had written about some of the problems with the accuracy of the cheating detection service Turnitin which is used by about 6, 000 schools worldwide. There have also been legal issues raised about the intellectual property implications of storing student work in their data base. As reported by Wired, a recent court ruling has addressed this:
A federal appeals court granted a boost to fair use advocates Friday when it ruled that an online cheating-detection service storing thousands of student essays did not violate the intellectual property rights of the essayists.
via Fair Use Bolstered by Student-Cheating Detection Service | Threat Level from Wired.com.
