Scourge of students everywhere, the Californian company Turnitin has been accused of breaking copyright law [1] by two Arizona high school kids. The anti-plagiarism service is used by 6,000 institutions in 90 countries and stores each student work submitted in its database. The pair claim that it violates their right to control their own copyrighted work.
The father of one of the plaintiffs thinks schools should teach students that cheating is wrong. "You can't take a person's work and run it through a computer and make an honest person out of them" he said.
Quite.
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[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032802038.html