Dear AOIRers, A colleague teaching another course has come across an issue with an undergrad who refuses to hand in her term paper because the faculty member's course requires that all papers also be submitted to Turnitin.com. The student claims that this violates her own intellectual property because Turnitin reportedly keeps copies for future plagiarism searches. As a supposed ICT & society "expert," my colleague came to me for advice. My first thought was horsefeathers. However, I am wondering if there is any precedent or case law on this in Canada or the US. (EU would be too different, I think.) I am not interested in the ethics or the morality of Turnitin, but in how other situations have been resolved. Thanks, Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________