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Judge: Turnitin.com doesn't violate copyright laws
By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor, eSchool News
A federal district court judge threw out a lawsuit against the online plagiarism detection service Turnitin.com last month, ruling the web site--which stores student papers in its database and compares them with new submissions--does not violate copyright laws.
Students at McLean High School in Fairfax County, Va., and the Tucson Unified School District in Arizona filed a lawsuit in October 2006 arguing that Turnitin.com committed copyright infringement when it stored digital copies of students' essays in its database. U.S. District Court Judge Claude M. Hilton ruled March 11 that unauthorized use of copyrighted work for news reporting, comment, and teaching did not constitute copyright infringement.
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The works of one of the most towering figures of modern science are now available to anyone on the web, CNET reports. The Darwin Online Project on April 17 released more than 90,000 online pages of Charles Darwin's photographs, sketches, and manuscripts, including the first draft of his theory of evolution. Transcripts of many of the documents have been published in the past, but this is the first time that the original manuscripts have been made available to the general public--and seeing these works in Darwin's original scrawl somehow adds to the weightiness of what you are reading.
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