The lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, seeks $900,000 in damages from the for-profit service known as Turnitin. The service seeks to root out cheaters by comparing student term papers and essays against a database of more than 22 million student papers as well as online sources and electronic archives of journals. In the process, the student papers are added to the database.
This is an interesting case and I am somewhat inconclusive on it. The fact is, Turnitin -did- store copyrighted material so that it can be scanned in the future. It’s going to be a tough case, but I’d like to see the outcome.
Source: Washington Post