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Students at a Virginia high school sue www.turnitin.com, a plagiarism-prevention service, for copying, archiving, and commercially profiting from their work without permission. Such irony! A number of documents related to the case are available at dontturnitin.com , including letters and editorials.
An Ohio appeals court throws out child-pornography charges after the FBI raids the office of the defendant's expert witness, seizing evidence which had been provided by the state, and charging the expert witness with illegally possessing it. The expert witness's possession of this material as part of his work for the defendant was apparently authorized under state law, but not under federal law. The same material was also provided to a prosecution expert witness, but there's no indication that his office is due for any similar raids. Court rules that this effectively denied the defendant full legal representation. Your humble correspondent can't help but agree, no matter how sleazy the defendant might be.
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I had to use turnitin.com in my last semester of college. A paper I wrote was flagged. Apparently, the school has scanned in a bunch of old papers from the previous few years and I had unwittingly plagiarized myself. Luckily, there were no consequences for having a tendency to repeat oneself. I am not a fan.
That's exactly the kind of problem that the "Dontturnitin" folks describe in their webpage.
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