Students Settle With TurnItIn In Copyright Case

An anonymous reader writes "With the deadline for a Supreme Court appeal rapidly approaching, the students who sued TurnItIn.com for issues surrounding copyright infringement reached a settlement with the site's company on Friday. Now the search goes out for any student who has a paper which is being held by TurnItIn that they did not upload themselves. If your teacher uploaded a paper and ran a TurnItIn report without your permission, I bet the students' attorney would like to hear from you."

"Citation Needed"

[Warhawke]

Anyone else find it exceedingly ironic that the slashdot summary was lifted word-for-word from Anon-a-blog?

Re:"Citation Needed"

[Anonymous Coward]

As author of both the anon-a-blog and the submission, I am cool with that!

Re:Talk to your professor, opt out

[Anonymous Coward]

If anyone has an essay they wrote to opt out of the service with their professors, can I have it? I don't feel like writing my own.

Re:Who is really hurt by such services?

[oldhack]

We like to kick everyone in the nuts, too, but that takes bit more work, not to mention the subspecies without nuts...

Re:Who is really hurt by such services?

[JimboFBX]

Unless you're drunk, then we think punching the problem in the face works pretty well.

Re:Always did wonder

[DriedClexler]

turnitin intends to catch running a paper through a theosaurus

What good would it to do to run a paper through a reptile god?

Unless you mean thesaurus ;-)