Students Claim Plagiarism Program Deprives Them of IP Rights

Students at a Virginia high school are claiming that a planned use of one of the country’s most popular plagiarism programs, Turnitin, deprives them of their intellectual property rights. Soon their teachers will require them to submit drafts of their papers to the program in order to determine whether they have properly cited their sources. According to school rules, “only the final version will be graded. Students who refuse to use Turnitin will be given a zero on the assignment.” Turnitin, a for-profit company, keeps copies of all papers submitted in its database. Read more in a Washington Post story here.