"According to the lawsuit, each of the students obtained a copyright registration for papers they submitted to Turnitin. The lawsuit filed against Turnitin's parent company, iParadigms LLC, seeks $150,000 for each of six papers written by the students."
Perhaps a lawyer can explain it so that I don't understand - how does a high school essay come to have a $150,000 value?
Anyway....
Turnitin is used by 6,000 insitutions in over 90 countries. I have used it and...it works pretty well, thank you.
The service will tell anyone who submits the paper where else that paper or parts of that paper can be found on the Internet.
If the 'where else' happens to be the same person as the author...no harm, no foul. If it is someone else...fingers start pointing.
If Turnitin stored a paper that a user asked it not to store...different problem. Sounds like a programming problem to me....that is NOT worth $150,000.
Turnitin and services like it are quite useful. I submit ALL of my students' papers to a similar service, of which Turnitin is just one part...and I most ALWAYS find someone has tried to pass of some work that is not their own.
Don't cheat...don't worry.
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