Turnitin doesn’t break copyrights: US ruling
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Depending on which side of the fence you are to rest, anti-plagiarism Turnitin company is known or famous. In Canada, a year ago, two students claimed that it violates the law on copyright, and he for almost 1 million damages. But in the United States, a federal judge has decided not students against copyright, although it is storing digital copies of their tours in the database, which the company uses to work on Scientific Dishonesty , “says the Chronicle of Higher Education. On the contrary, Mr. Judge Claude Hilton decided to digitize documents to find plagiarism was “very transformative,” falls under the “fair use the copyright regime. “He decided that the company” does not authorize the use of any work, in particular, the creator or the expressive content of the reduction in the use of comparison with other works, and that the new service offers a major public, “says the story, including the floor “The decision also has consequences for others to the expansion of digital services, such as Google, for example, for books in major bookstores and paste them in the index for the search. But, “I certainly attractive,” the chronicle of Robert A. quoted Vanderhye, a retired lawyer from Virginia, took, the number of students per bonom case, of course. “I am confident that the court of appeal for the opposite,” the fair use. The judge, he said, “copy” of the company shortly. “He did not even believe that our arguments.” |