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Students Settle With TurnItIn In Copyright Case

Posted by Soulskill on from the nobody-wants-to-read-your-awful-papers dept.

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."

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  1. "Citation Needed" by Warhawke · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone else find it exceedingly ironic that the slashdot summary was lifted word-for-word from Anon-a-blog?

    1. Re:"Citation Needed" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      As author of both the anon-a-blog and the submission, I am cool with that!

  2. Re:Talk to your professor, opt out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If anyone has an essay they wrote to opt out of the service with their professors, can I have it? I don't feel like writing my own.

  3. Re:Who is really hurt by such services? by oldhack · · Score: 2, Funny

    We like to kick everyone in the nuts, too, but that takes bit more work, not to mention the subspecies without nuts...

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  4. Re:Who is really hurt by such services? by JimboFBX · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unless you're drunk, then we think punching the problem in the face works pretty well.

  5. Re:Always did wonder by DriedClexler · · Score: 3, Funny

    turnitin intends to catch running a paper through a theosaurus

    What good would it to do to run a paper through a reptile god?

    Unless you mean thesaurus ;-)

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