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Thu, 29 Mar 2007

I was wondering when this was going to happen. You can't constantly tell kids not to make archives of music and movies because they're "intellectual property" and not expect at least some of them to pick up on the fact that they hold the same rights to their term papers as the RIAA does to it's albums.

This suit should be a slam dunk for the plaintiffs.

Two McLean High School students have launched a court challenge against a California company hired by their school to catch cheaters, claiming the anti-plagiarism service violates copyright laws.

(link) [Washington Post]

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On 3/29/2007 08:02:21
SB wrote

I wondered when kids would start demanding that educators respect their copyrights. I began asking to have my work product returned to me my sophmore year of high school, primarily so I could verify their grading of it, but also because I wanted to make sure I retained control of it. I had so much less to worry about, most of them weren't coordinated enough to work the copiers. I had to pursue a couple of art teachers for failing to return finished projects once grading or showing was over. Of course, my fear was always being held up to future generations as an example of how not to do things. Really, students retain the same rights to fair use as anyone else. If they create a paper, they have the right to set the terms of use for that paper. Maybe they should start attaching copies of the Creative Commons license to finished work. I don't know if teachers ever respected the rights of students to retain control of their work, but it used to be harder for them to disregard those rights.

On 3/29/2007 08:57:57
Thud wrote

Some years ago I noticed an odd robot crawling the archives of Thudfactor; when I looked it up, it belonged to an anti-cheating service which was storing writing and selling anti-plagiarism services to colleges and high schools. AND it was making frequent visits. I banned the robot; they didn't ask and I wasn't getting anything -- like traffic, which search engines give me -- out of it. As far as I know they haven't been back.

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