more from a paper I turned in on privacy in the digital age.
Other problems arise when individuals abuse their power as owners of their own personal information, for instance with respect to essays in college. People had been using the Internet to plagiarize other people's work and to offer their own work for a price. This led to a retaliatory effect where Turnitin.com rose up as a service that tracks the papers written by all students that attend participating colleges. The interesting thing that I found about Turnitin.com when reading their legal literature governing the use of their system is the fact that they never specifically address the issue of ownership of a document submitted to the site. For instance the site specifically does not explicitly claim ownership of your written work nor does it reserve your own rights as the author of your work. According to the U.S. Copyright Office a copyright holder can allow others to display the work in public. Turnitin.com does so, without specifically asking, but by the nature of the business permission is implied. In fact since there is not anything in Turnitin.com's service that protects the original author's rights. It could be contested that Turnitin.com's service also implies full copyright ownership of the document. This is all well and good, so long as Turnitin.com doesn't abuse their power as the owner's of a huge collection of literary work, but what happens if, say, Turnitin.com goes bankrupt and is purchased by someone else? Who owns your written work? What can they do with it? And most importantly how does an individual protect their intellectual property?
Hello, I am new to turnitin.com and I am curious about something.
I have read the turnitin's privacy pledge, the End User License
Agreement, the usage policy, and the Privacy and Copyright pdf
document. I have not found anywhere on this site anything that begins
to address the question of the ownership of papers that are turned in
to turnitin.com. I find this to be terribly frightening. I believe
your companies documentation when it says that "turnitin.com does not
violate any state or federal laws" but at the same time the only thing
that seems to maintain that point is the fact that the company doesn't
address the issue of ownership of intellectual property. For instance
the company obviously retains ownership of my work for the purpose of
comparing it to the work of other students, however your site never
explicitly states this fact. You never say that when I turn in my
document you reserve ownership rights to my work. You never as far as
I can find explicitly state that I retain full ownership of my work.
You explicitly make no provisions whatsoever for the protection of my
intellectual property through your end user license agreement. So, my
question basically rests at whether I can have my work completely
withdrawn from your database after it has been checked and determined
to be original? It is after all my work and not yours and it is a
requirement that I use your service to pass my class, so surely you
must provide a way for me to protect my own rights as an original
author?
I think the point is that I don't have to pay extra taxes just so I have the privilege of seeing ferraris driving down the streets of my small town. Which makes sense because a ferrari doesn't wear down the roads anymore than some beat up pinto.
You could also go over to archive.org and check out the "Grateful Dead" section and you know give credit where it's due. Still I don't know why you were modded offtopic, net neutrality and the current IP situation (see mafiaa) are closely related.
I'm working on it. So are my kids. Of course I disagree on the "Math and Science" bit, my kids WILL graduate, I see numeracy on equal standing with literacy.
Maybe doctors should refer patients to microbiologists for antibiotic treatment. My sister is a microbiologist and I think she certainly will know more about bacterial mutation than a doctor would. Of course when the fever gets high and things aren't gong well I wouldn't call my sister.
Oh wait what? The Xbox 360 leverages the PC market in offering compatible games and the ability to talk/play together whether you're on Xbox or PC. Most gamers simply consider a PC a DIY console and that's the market MS doesn't want to lose. Sony recognizes this and we have things like Java incorporated in Blue Ray and Playstation Linux operating systems. I think Nintendo recognized this years ago with the game cube and chose a different direction when MS entered the market.
Looks like the US and Canada ought to cooperate on a pipe that runs the border. Then in the US individual states can coop on their borders. Suggesting that the first priorities in laying big fiber is geopolitical.
"getting a rich guy out of trouble"
You're right he's getting a rich guy out of trouble.
He's also making it simpler for those of lesser standing to take the same course. He made it abundantly clear that there was lots of money available to throw at the case, but he also made this letter public. The letter itself is clearly based on more than just "money" it's based on what someone with money would spend to fight this case, which is based solely on the legal merit of the case, otherwise the settlement would have been paid or the letter would have been more humble.
I agree it sucks that a good lawyer costs an arm and a leg. At the same time I'm sure some lawyers enjoy it when they get to affect real justice. Sometimes legal theory works and for that Mr. Merl Ledford III deserves his kudos.
That was awesome, you should write comics for the newspaper.
Wait a minute, you should do a site that does comics that coincide with slashdot stories.
(sorry, I've been on ideastorm.com all day)
I've been waiting for home automation to "hit" for about four years now. Only after part-time work with a moving company did I see new homes with all the necessary "wiring" at that point I knew this was coming soon. Also, if you check employment listings you will see "construction technology specialists" listed, another hint.
OFFTOPIC, but funny
Who meta-moderates the meta-moderators?
They are the "macro/micro moderators" they are well versed in modonomics and fiat intellectualism. Some say the card house of fiat intellectualism will fall as it is truly a paperless based currency that only carries the value a mindless mob gives it. People of this ilk are inclined to say that the former gray matter and credential based intellectualism was far more practical as noted experts had actually previously been proven to be smart. Modonomics however, holds that the credential based intellectual currency doesn't hold up. Mainly because the smarter you the more you are outnumbered by people that are dumb. This in itself is proof that the credentialed intellectuals were actually stupid for trying to argue with a large reactive mob, in fact when carrying this theory to conclusion it can be shown that the more credentials and gray matter someone has the dumber they are, as they are constantly arguing with a larger an larger group of people. The credentialed intellectuals have unanimously agreed that this is stupid, at which point the Modonomists exclaimed "precisely, we are happy to see that you see things our way and we can now continue making expert opinions up by popular vote". At this point the credentialed intellectuals were enraged and challenged these "Modonomists" to an intellectual contest. Unfortunately, the intellectuals typically know nothing about the 11th episode of survivor, who anna nicole smith is nor how she died, and these poor credentialed intellectuals couldn't unanimously answer "sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you ________", once the contest was over the large gray matter carrying homo sapiens were found to be cosmetically offensive. They were then sentenced to have their brains sucked out and implanted into their biceps, chest, lips, and ass as appropriate for gender and the new plasticized beauty standard. Fortunately, they are now capable of breeding with much of the regular populace now that they are more suited for holding meaningful conversations about Thursday night television and how fat and unattractive their neighbors are.
2008 is the deadline for the Linux desktop according to ESR. Personally, I just spent four hours watching Mac with Parallels in action and I really cannot understand what's going on in the industry. Mac wins, you can run windows, fedora, debian, whatever you want. You can prototype networks build linux servers windows servers and your grandma can still get to her email without tech support telling her to disable her firewall. This is *the* ultimate desktop, windows should be deployed where best, linux should be deployed where it's best suited and the human interface should be Mac OS X.
Slashdot Mirror
FWIW - I don't have the final copy anymore but I did make modifications before reaching a final draft.
Other problems arise when individuals abuse their power as owners of their own personal information, for instance with respect to essays in college. People had been using the Internet to plagiarize other people's work and to offer their own work for a price. This led to a retaliatory effect where Turnitin.com rose up as a service that tracks the papers written by all students that attend participating colleges. The interesting thing that I found about Turnitin.com when reading their legal literature governing the use of their system is the fact that they never specifically address the issue of ownership of a document submitted to the site. For instance the site specifically does not explicitly claim ownership of your written work nor does it reserve your own rights as the author of your work. According to the U.S. Copyright Office a copyright holder can allow others to display the work in public. Turnitin.com does so, without specifically asking, but by the nature of the business permission is implied. In fact since there is not anything in Turnitin.com's service that protects the original author's rights. It could be contested that Turnitin.com's service also implies full copyright ownership of the document. This is all well and good, so long as Turnitin.com doesn't abuse their power as the owner's of a huge collection of literary work, but what happens if, say, Turnitin.com goes bankrupt and is purchased by someone else? Who owns your written work? What can they do with it? And most importantly how does an individual protect their intellectual property?
Hello, I am new to turnitin.com and I am curious about something. I have read the turnitin's privacy pledge, the End User License Agreement, the usage policy, and the Privacy and Copyright pdf document. I have not found anywhere on this site anything that begins to address the question of the ownership of papers that are turned in to turnitin.com. I find this to be terribly frightening. I believe your companies documentation when it says that "turnitin.com does not violate any state or federal laws" but at the same time the only thing that seems to maintain that point is the fact that the company doesn't address the issue of ownership of intellectual property. For instance the company obviously retains ownership of my work for the purpose of comparing it to the work of other students, however your site never explicitly states this fact. You never say that when I turn in my document you reserve ownership rights to my work. You never as far as I can find explicitly state that I retain full ownership of my work. You explicitly make no provisions whatsoever for the protection of my intellectual property through your end user license agreement. So, my question basically rests at whether I can have my work completely withdrawn from your database after it has been checked and determined to be original? It is after all my work and not yours and it is a requirement that I use your service to pass my class, so surely you must provide a way for me to protect my own rights as an original author?
Hmm, algae farms that span miles don't sound that healthy with malaria being being what it is.
Malaria
I think the point is that I don't have to pay extra taxes just so I have the privilege of seeing ferraris driving down the streets of my small town. Which makes sense because a ferrari doesn't wear down the roads anymore than some beat up pinto.
You could also go over to archive.org and check out the "Grateful Dead" section and you know give credit where it's due. Still I don't know why you were modded offtopic, net neutrality and the current IP situation (see mafiaa) are closely related.
I wonder if they run Linux?
Thanks that was an excellent laugh.
No. Wait till your drawers magically change color and post a dupe.
If you can they might compete with psychedelic drugs.
I'm working on it. So are my kids. Of course I disagree on the "Math and Science" bit, my kids WILL graduate, I see numeracy on equal standing with literacy.
Do you have a link?
Maybe doctors should refer patients to microbiologists for antibiotic treatment. My sister is a microbiologist and I think she certainly will know more about bacterial mutation than a doctor would. Of course when the fever gets high and things aren't gong well I wouldn't call my sister.
Oh wait what? The Xbox 360 leverages the PC market in offering compatible games and the ability to talk/play together whether you're on Xbox or PC. Most gamers simply consider a PC a DIY console and that's the market MS doesn't want to lose. Sony recognizes this and we have things like Java incorporated in Blue Ray and Playstation Linux operating systems. I think Nintendo recognized this years ago with the game cube and chose a different direction when MS entered the market.
Looks like the US and Canada ought to cooperate on a pipe that runs the border. Then in the US individual states can coop on their borders. Suggesting that the first priorities in laying big fiber is geopolitical.
Thanks, I'm happier the parent was finally modded "Flamebait" as an expert you add a lot to slashdot and crap like that needs to be modded as such.
You're right he's getting a rich guy out of trouble.
He's also making it simpler for those of lesser standing to take the same course. He made it abundantly clear that there was lots of money available to throw at the case, but he also made this letter public. The letter itself is clearly based on more than just "money" it's based on what someone with money would spend to fight this case, which is based solely on the legal merit of the case, otherwise the settlement would have been paid or the letter would have been more humble.
I agree it sucks that a good lawyer costs an arm and a leg. At the same time I'm sure some lawyers enjoy it when they get to affect real justice. Sometimes legal theory works and for that Mr. Merl Ledford III deserves his kudos.
That was awesome, you should write comics for the newspaper. Wait a minute, you should do a site that does comics that coincide with slashdot stories. (sorry, I've been on ideastorm.com all day)
I hope they do mice next, so I can have a small tribe of The Littles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Littles/.
google says "Did you mean: MCSE"
I've been waiting for home automation to "hit" for about four years now. Only after part-time work with a moving company did I see new homes with all the necessary "wiring" at that point I knew this was coming soon. Also, if you check employment listings you will see "construction technology specialists" listed, another hint.
that was funny
Who meta-moderates the meta-moderators?
They are the "macro/micro moderators" they are well versed in modonomics and fiat intellectualism. Some say the card house of fiat intellectualism will fall as it is truly a paperless based currency that only carries the value a mindless mob gives it. People of this ilk are inclined to say that the former gray matter and credential based intellectualism was far more practical as noted experts had actually previously been proven to be smart. Modonomics however, holds that the credential based intellectual currency doesn't hold up. Mainly because the smarter you the more you are outnumbered by people that are dumb. This in itself is proof that the credentialed intellectuals were actually stupid for trying to argue with a large reactive mob, in fact when carrying this theory to conclusion it can be shown that the more credentials and gray matter someone has the dumber they are, as they are constantly arguing with a larger an larger group of people. The credentialed intellectuals have unanimously agreed that this is stupid, at which point the Modonomists exclaimed "precisely, we are happy to see that you see things our way and we can now continue making expert opinions up by popular vote". At this point the credentialed intellectuals were enraged and challenged these "Modonomists" to an intellectual contest. Unfortunately, the intellectuals typically know nothing about the 11th episode of survivor, who anna nicole smith is nor how she died, and these poor credentialed intellectuals couldn't unanimously answer "sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you ________", once the contest was over the large gray matter carrying homo sapiens were found to be cosmetically offensive. They were then sentenced to have their brains sucked out and implanted into their biceps, chest, lips, and ass as appropriate for gender and the new plasticized beauty standard. Fortunately, they are now capable of breeding with much of the regular populace now that they are more suited for holding meaningful conversations about Thursday night television and how fat and unattractive their neighbors are.
2008 is the deadline for the Linux desktop according to ESR. Personally, I just spent four hours watching Mac with Parallels in action and I really cannot understand what's going on in the industry. Mac wins, you can run windows, fedora, debian, whatever you want. You can prototype networks build linux servers windows servers and your grandma can still get to her email without tech support telling her to disable her firewall. This is *the* ultimate desktop, windows should be deployed where best, linux should be deployed where it's best suited and the human interface should be Mac OS X.
It's a joke and you are a very bitter person.