Turnitin Sued for Copyright Infringement
Wow, has it really been three years since I wrote about how Turnitin gives me the creeps? Time flies when you’re raging against the machine, I guess. According to slashdot, some high school students in Virginia are suing the plagiarism-detection service for $900,000 in damages, claiming – as I did three years ago – that the company is using their copyrighted works for financial gain without their permission. If the consensus at slashdot is anything to go by (and it’s admittedly often not), Turnitin may be in some trouble on this one.
April 3rd, 2007
Hopefully something will come out of it.
…because I hate Turnitin. It’s crap…how can you not “copy” when the notes you get on [several] poem[s] are the same?
– you sued three years ago?
April 4th, 2007
Ha! No, I didn’t sue them I just complained about them here on my blog. They were copying everything off my blog so they could compare your papers with it. I put a stop to that!
February 28th, 2009
I know you posted this a couple of years ago, but I have a question. So if you (or any other blogger) writes something on their site, turnitin.com uses that information to compare with students essays to prove that they’re not plagiarizing? So, turnitin.com is not only infringing on the intellectual property rights of students, but they are also taking the work of anyone and everyone on the internet without their permission? Does this break any laws?
March 2nd, 2009
I’m not sure that it does break any laws. I’m not a lawyer or a judge. But I do know one thing for sure: it made me mad so I stopped them from taking my stuff.