Word: copyright
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...Google’s initiative has been mired in lawsuits from copyright holders, though Harvard is only scanning works that are in the public domain...
Meanwhile, students at a high school in McLean, Va., are trying to bring down Turnitin by suing its parent company, iParadigms, for alleged copyright infringement. To file such a lawsuit, a writer has to pay $45 to register a copyright, be it for a Pulitzer prizewinning novel or a ninth-grader's meanderings on Animal Farm, and the penalty per copyright violation can be as much as $150,000. So if the McLean High School students prevail with their copyrighted essays--a trial will probably begin this fall--ambulance- chasing lawyers will start tailing school buses, and Turnitin may have...
...come back to reality," iParadigms CEO John Barrie says of the copyright suit. "These aren't nuclear-missile secrets." Papers are being archived at the same time as testing sites install cell-phone detectors to keep students from text-messaging answers or finding them online. One result of the high-tech cheating wars: paranoia. McCabe says fewer students are filling out his anonymous surveys. "Students started accusing me of getting their IP address," he says...
...virtually no choice but to comply, and students have no choice but to use my.harvard once again. Access to course Web sites is crucial for the success of CrimsonConnect.com, and one of the few reasons besides registration that students still use my.harvard. Legal experts have disputed whether Harvard has copyright claim over password-protected web sites and can even force Hadfield to remove this outstanding feature. But issues of copyright aside, the administration’s approach is wrongheaded, and clearly not in the best interests of students. My.harvard—which Harvard somehow thinks is wonderful and responding...
With the goal of fostering “limitless legal content flow” through innovative licensing deals, Noank makes shared music look “free” to its listeners while reimbursing the copyright holders directly for downloads of their materials. Noank does this by serving as an aggregator, collecting payment through institutions such as libraries and schools, as well as Internet Service Providers. Forward-thinking copyright holders recognize that this system may offer them more rewards, not less control...