Posted on 04/05/2004 3:53:42 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 05/27/2014 11:31:00 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
This process has already started. Our local public high school requires students to run major term papers though turnitin.com, which specializes in "online plagiarism prevention."
To excerpt from its web site (yes, in less than 100 words!): "
Any text in the paper that is found by our system to be unoriginal appears underlined, color-coded, and linked to its original source. All work submitted to Turnitin is checked against three databases of content:
1. Both a current and extensively archived copy of the publicly accessible Internet (more than 4.5 billion pages updated at a rate of 40 million pages per day);
2. Millions of published works, including the ProQuest commercial database, ABI/Inform, Periodical Abstracts, Business Dateline, and tens of thousands of electronic books including ... Literary Classics;
3. Millions of student papers already submitted to Turnitin."
A copy of the analysis from this site must be turned in with the term paper.
That third database really annoys me. My children are FORCED to GIVE a copy of their own, original work to this company so that future submissions can be matched against what my children have written. It is rather chilling to have the immature ramblings of teenagers be archived like this! Will their words be held against them forty years from now?
Thanks. Arrowhead1952 encouraged me to do that. :^D
The public school plagiarism Nazis are hard at work.
Oh, DANG! We can't post from "The Onion"? And it was always SO informative! ;o)
Added the Times-Picayune (nola.com) to the excerpt and link only list.
they already have "spiders" working the internet looking for blocks of text as small as four or five "ordered" keywords, to try and ferret out businesses they can afford to sue for phony copyright violations... and to shrink the size even further on what qualifies as usable via the "fair use" doctrine.
They don't even have to sue the big boyz... they can blackmail them to "avoid" litigation over what is on their website.
you do it on a small private website, and you will skate..
quote somebody important on a blog run by hewlitt packard, and they threaten HP with a lawsuit, just to get money from the "deep pockets" of the corporation...
yes... the trial lawyers are doing that.
As the industry builds its mechanism for web based lawsuits and blackmail scams, it will become increasingly cost effective for them to sue more and more of the little guys too... as the cost per suit or "legalized blackmail" via the deprecated "fair use" copyright laws of longstanding, goes down to pennies a hit....
"you used three words from our article, please use the paypal button to donate $50.79 for using the "partial" article on your 'information blog,' or consider that you might face litigation over your violation of copyright...
Yes. This is the fallout from RIAA, the DCMA and the phony "file sharing" lawsuits, used as a trojan horse to insert a very large LEGAL INVASION force.. into the internet.
since riaa is probably now a "trademarked" acronymn... we will eventually be sued at the law, for even discussing them by name... "that will be 500 dollars please.. or else!"
Will their words be held against them forty years from now?
I guess that means you don't have a problem with students turning in work they've cut and pasted directly off the internet?
:D
So...we can't even post a link to the "no, not now...not ever" list?
PARAphrase!
:D !!!
There's a GREAT name for the list of those who fear Freep discussions.
Bummer, I can't live without studlife.com.
They actually fear that we may be able to think for ourselves.
What if the student writes an opinion in a paper, and later in life, when his opinions and views may have changed, this former opinion is held against him when he goes to apply for a job? Have your views and opinions changed since you were in high school? I know mine sure have. That comes with maturity as well as with experience.
One of the big problems with today's society is that we want everyone to be perfect and follow all of the rules, as well as to put systems into place to ensure that the rules are followed. While ideally we should all should strive to be model citizens, pragmatically it isn't going to happen, since we are humans. There will be a few that try to break the rules, but the majority that follow the rules shouldn't have to bear the burden for those that break them.
It might be easier if FR just listed the publications that CAN be excerpted or linked. What are we down to now, about two?
For some reason, the first thing that popped into my mind was Hillary Rodham's paper from Wellesley that many people here thought ought to be made public.
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