Laura Murray is an Associate Professor in the English Department of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, and creator of the website www.faircopyright.ca.
Samuel Trosow is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. He is jointly appointed in the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies.
US Court finds dismisses complaint against Turnitin
Saturday, 29 March 2008
In an extremely questionable decision which seems to contain many grounds for appeal, the US Federal District Court (for the Eastern District of Virginia) has dismissed an action brought by high school students against iParadigms, A California corporation that operates the highly controversial plagiarism-detection system turnitin.
The action was brought by high school students against iParadigms alleging copyright infringement. In its 24 page ruling, the court upheld a waiver of liability clause in the click-wrap agreement that barred the suit and went on to say that even if the action had not been barred the defendant's use of the students' work constituted fair-dealing because of its highly transformative nature. Add as favourites (205) | Quote this article on your site | Print | E-mail
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I am an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario jointly appointed to the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS).
Before coming to Western, I was a law librarian at the Boalt Hall Law Library at the University of California at Berkeley and before that I was in private law practice in California. My doctoral work in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA focused on information policy issues.
