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Monday, May 13, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i36/36a03701.htm Plagiarism-Detection Tool Creates Legal Quandary - When professors send students' papers to a database, are copyrights violated? ANDREA L. FOSTER When electronic tools to ferret out student plagiarism hit the market a few years ago, colleges saw them as easy-to-use and affordable. But now some college lawyers and professors are warning that one of the most widely used plagiarism-detection services may be trampling on students' copyrights and privacy. And many campus officials are starting to wonder whether some of the high-tech tools they are using to detect dishonesty clash with students' legal rights. The service creating the stir is Turnitin.com (http://www.turnitin.com), which says it has about 400 colleges in the United States on its client list. A paper submitted to the service is checked against a database of manuscripts -- estimated at more than one million -- and a database of books and journals, as well as more than a billion Web sites. Phrases that seem to be unoriginal are flagged for professors to check....
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