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Professor Sues Students - Alpha - 03-18-2022
copywrite infringement
California College Professor Sues Students After Midterm and Final Exams Are Posted Online – NBC4 Washington (nbcwashington.com)
RE: Professor Sues Students - Tedium - 03-18-2022
This brings to mind the fact that all of those plagiarism checkers are taking, storing, and using our intellectual property without compensation to run their businesses. If professors can sue students for publishing tests online then we should be able to file a class action lawsuit against the schools and those 3rd party companies for continued use of every essay we have or will ever write.
Just saying.
RE: Professor Sues Students - ss20ts - 03-18-2022
(03-18-2022, 09:56 PM)Tedium Wrote: This brings to mind the fact that all of those plagiarism checkers are taking, storing, and using our intellectual property without compensation to run their businesses. If professors can sue students for publishing tests online then we should be able to file a class action lawsuit against the schools and those 3rd party companies for continued use of every essay we have or will ever write.
Just saying.
It's definitely like opening Pandora's box. I've never liked that the papers we submitted can be used by the college, TurnItIn, etc. It's like we give up ownership even though we wrote them, did the research, and paid the college to take the class. We weren't compensated at all.
RE: Professor Sues Students - studyingfortests - 03-18-2022
(03-18-2022, 09:56 PM)Tedium Wrote: This brings to mind the fact that all of those plagiarism checkers are taking, storing, and using our intellectual property without compensation to run their businesses. If professors can sue students for publishing tests online then we should be able to file a class action lawsuit against the schools and those 3rd party companies for continued use of every essay we have or will ever write.
Just saying.
Someone did, years ago when Turnitin first started. And somehow, it went all the way up the chain in the legal system and Turnitin won. How that happened, I have no idea. I think they made the arguement that it was in the compelling interest of the public to stop plagiarism and that was the only use made.
I have, for years, appended a tiny copyright disclaimer on any paper I turn in, specifically disallowing any storage or use of my content for any purpose or reason whatsoever. Not that it does anything, but my hope is that if, someday, someone overturns this, I could ten insist all of my content be removed.
These services are essentially pointless now that there are thousands of "term paper assistance" services hiring out-of-work graduates to write topnotch, "guaranteed plagiarism free" papers that students "use as a guide" for papers they supposely are going to write. The people that want to cheat and are willing to pay can cheat and it's unlikely they get caught, unfortunately... until AI gets smart enough to detect tone and uniqueness between individual writers.
RE: Professor Sues Students - LevelUP - 03-18-2022
It's a battle of cat and mouse to preserve the integrity of testing
https://www.asaecenter.org/resources/articles/an_plus/2020/january/new-copyright-protections-for-certification-exams
Many testers will use a test bank of questions. For example, the final test might be 100 questions drawn from a bank of 500 possible questions. So if a student finds a copied online test, it wouldn't help them as much to study one test.
One idea is to keep track of which questions you give each person taking a test that provides questions in a unique order. Then when they post it online, you know exactly who posted the test.
Fun Fact:
Even a test with only 10 questions, there are over 3 million unique combinations of non-repeating numbers.
RE: Professor Sues Students - jsd - 03-18-2022
(03-18-2022, 10:45 PM)LevelUP Wrote: Even a test with only 10 questions, there are over 3 million unique combinations of non-repeating numbers.
I'm having Discrete Math flashbacks.
RE: Professor Sues Students - Messdiener - 03-20-2022
(03-18-2022, 10:38 PM)studyingfortests Wrote: I have, for years, appended a tiny copyright disclaimer on any paper I turn in, specifically disallowing any storage or use of my content for any purpose or reason whatsoever. Not that it does anything, but my hope is that if, someday, someone overturns this, I could ten insist all of my content be removed.
Would you be willing to share that disclaimer? It would be nice to have a sample to adapt for use on future papers.