Students Settle With TurnItIn In Copyright Case

An anonymous reader writes "With the deadline for a Supreme Court appeal rapidly approaching, the students who sued TurnItIn.com for issues surrounding copyright infringement reached a settlement with the site's company on Friday. Now the search goes out for any student who has a paper which is being held by TurnItIn that they did not upload themselves. If your teacher uploaded a paper and ran a TurnItIn report without your permission, I bet the students' attorney would like to hear from you."

Comments

Re:That's not how "copyright" works

[commodore64_love]

>>>The use of the papers did not affect the market value of the works, therefore favoring the use.

So if I write a script for Star Trek, to be submitted whenever it returns to television, the copy up on Turnitin won't affect my sale? Yeah right. Why should Paramount pay me when they can just grab a free copy off that website. Or worse, pay turnitin.com for the script rights instead of paying me, the original author.

Maybe today's management is honest, but companies tend to go downhill and it wouldn't surprise me if some future CEO at turnitin.com decides to start selling the papers, scripts, stories, and other creative output in his possession.

Re:Talk to your professor, opt out

[Hognoxious]

Professors get paid by my check every semester. They are there because students like me say they can be.

So yes, you do think you're a precious little snowflake. And arrogant to boot.

There's plenty more where you came from.

this article mentioned a lawsuit which is nearly ironclad in that students are in fact having their rights violated.

It says nothing of the sort. It's equally likely that it's just cheaper to settle.