Intellectual Property Law

Fourth Circuit: Plagiarism detection service is fair use of students' copyrighted papers

By McKee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C.

In a recent decision by the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the court decided that the anti-plagiarism service provided by iParadigms at turnitin.com, did not constitute copyright infringement of high school students' papers submitted via the service.  Instead, the court held the service was a fair use of the copyrighted works and therefore not infringement under § 107.  However, the court reversed and remanded to a district court on the issue against a student for liability under the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act for allegedly unauthorized access to its servers based on one student's use of a password meant for students from another school obtained via the internet.

More on A.V. v. iParadigms, LLC after the jump.

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Full post as published by FileWrapper on October 26, 2009 (boomark / email).