How translucency could defuse the Turnitin/McLean High controversy
September 23, 2006, 7:00 pm
From a 9/22/2006 story in the Washington Post:
The for-profit service known as Turnitin checks student work against a
database of more than 22 million papers written by students around the
world, as well as online sources and electronic archives of
journals. School administrators said the service, which they will
start using next week, is meant to deter plagiarism at a time when the
Internet makes it easy to copy someone else's words. But some McLean
High students are rebelling. [Students
Rebel Against Database Designed to Thwart Plagiarists]
Whether students' intellectual property rights are
infringed by Turnitin's incorporation of their
work into its database is an interesting question. But there
should be no need to answer it in order to resolve the
conflict. Here's why.
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