On Mar 8 2007, Douglas Eyman wrote:
If you put in a substantive amount of the "plagiarized text," the hash that is stored is output as identical to the original work that has been collected by the company. In other words, if you took all of a book that someone else has written and put it into a database, if when you get the output it reads the same, then the IP issues are still the same
I'm afraid I tend to disagree -- that is not what the cases say (specifically, see here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=949937&high=%20Mereology ) What you have described is essentially the Google Book Search project. The strongest argument for Turnitin as "fair use" is the one that Google has asserted. DLB -- Dan L. Burk Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 ********************************** voice: 612-626-8726 fax: 612-625-2011 bits: burkx006@umn.edu