Do Plagiarism-Detection Services Infringe Upon Students Copyrights and Privacy?
The Chronicle: Plagiarism-Detection Tool Creates Legal Quandary http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i36/36a03701.htm The Nando Times: Teachers Claim Web Sites Offer Students Easy Cheating Chance http://www.nando.net/technology/v-text/story/408408p-3256855c.html CNN.com: Many Students Say Cheating’s OK http://www.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/04/05/highschool.cheating/ MSNBC: Confronting Web Cheating Challenge http://www.msnbc.com/local/srpd/m183894.asp Turnitin.com http://www.turnitin.com/ Copycatch http://www.copycatch.freeserve.co.uk/vocalyse.htm Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Regulations http://www.ed.gov/offices/OM/fpco/ferparegs.html There is a huge debate brewing between some lawyers and college professors over whether or not plagiarism-detection services infringe upon students’ copyrights and privacy. The one particular service creating this uproar is Turnitin.com, a plagiarism-detection service that has approximately 400 colleges in the United States on its client
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