Do students have rights to the material they hand in as class assignments? Is plagiarism detection a form of fair use? These and a number of other intriguing questions were answered in a decision (PDF) handed down by a US District Court in Virginia recently, which threw out a lawsuit filed by students whose school compelled them to use an automated plagiarism detection system.Plagiarism. Transformative? Fair Use?
What if you disagreed with the terms of service? Should you be forced to comply? A related article on Ars indicates that, at the Plaintiff's school, a score of "0" is recorded if you don't submit your text.
While plagiarism seems bad, is the alternative here--forcing people to submit to a contract from a third party--any better?
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